The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley By Leslie Berlin Oxford University, 402 pp. $30 During those giddy 1990s, everyplace claimed to be the next silicon ...

Their leader was 29-year-old Robert Noyce, a physicist with a brilliant mind and the affability of a born salesman who would co-invent the microchip — an essential component of nearly all modern ...

The Yin and Yang sign. All painstakingly selected and etched onto a microchip that measures about an inch square. Each microscopic silicon doodle was the handiwork of engineers at Qualcomm ...

2 ranked Microchip's shares are up 19.3% over the past year. Silicon Laboratories Inc.: Silicon Laboratories is a fabless semiconductor company offering wireless microcontrollers and sensor ...

The first steps for making this particular semiconductor, known as a silicon carbide chip, happen in a factory in New Hampshire. The chip ends up in cars driven on American roads and elsewhere.

Microchip Technology won $162 million in subsidies ... Chipmakers use lithography to imprint complex, microscopic circuitry onto silicon wafers. During a visit to Hillsboro last spring, Commerce ...