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In the first part of today's return to the past, we will remember the personality of Robert Noyce. For example, he was also a co-founder of Intel, but he is also known to the public as one of the inventors of the integrated circuit. Today marks the anniversary of Noyce's death.

Robert Noyce died (1990)

On June 3, 1990, Robert Noyce - one of the inventors of the integrated circuit and co-founder of Farichild Semiconductor and Intel - died in Austin, Texas. Noyce's second wife, Ann Bower, served as vice president of human resources at Apple. From a young age, Noyce showed a talent for mathematics and the natural sciences. In 1949, Robert Noyce successfully completed his studies at Grinnell College, in 1953 he received a doctorate in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1959, he developed the first silicon-based integrated circuit. He died of a myocardial infarction at the age of 62.

Intel Nehalem (2009)

On June 3, 2009, Intel introduced its Nehalem Core i7 processor. This processor was originally codenamed Lynnfield. The i7-950 and 975 models had four cores and a speed of 3,06 GHz. The first processor models of the Nehalem product line were presented in their high-end versions at the end of 2008, and represented the successor of the older Core microarchitecture. Nehalem processors were manufactured using 45nm technology, a little later the 32nm process was used in their production. These components are named after the Nehalem River that flows through northwestern Oregon.

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