You may be seeing this Doodle when you visit Google.com today (12-Dec-2011). It’s just Google paying its respect for the man who co-invented the Integrated Circuit (IC). An MIT graduate, Robert Noyce was also the co-founder of the world’s largest chip-maker, Intel (along with Gordon Moore).

He was the holder of 15 patents. Noyce died in 1990 but is still referred to as the “Mayor of Silicon Valley” because of this extra-ordinary achievements.

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