Quote (rockonkenshin @ Jun 30 2011 07:10am)
No they weren't. Neither one made the first personal computer or the first computer languages. Gates made the first widely available language (Microsoft BASIC) and Jobs/Wozniak made the first popular personal computer.
OOPS...right idea...wrong guys....
In 1959 both parties applied for patents. Jack Kilby and Texas Instruments received U.S. patent #3,138,743 for miniaturized electronic circuits. Robert Noyce and the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation received U.S. patent #2,981,877 for a silicon based integrated circuit. The two companies wisely decided to cross license their technologies after several years of legal battles, creating a global market now worth about $1 trillion a year.
Jack Kilby holds patents on over sixty inventions and is also well known as the inventor of the portable calculator (1967). In 1970 he was awarded the National Medal of Science. Robert Noyce, with sixteen patents to his name, founded Intel, the company responsible for the invention of the microprocessor, in 1968. But for both men the invention of the integrated circuit stands historically as one of the most important innovations of mankind. Almost all modern products use chip technology.
Anyways..the whole point is..all ya gotta do..is figure out a NEW way to do something..maybe make the first device...that lets you hook consoles, PC's and entertainment centers together with...EASE...and so simple that grandma could do it.