
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, June 4, 1990                   TAG: 9006040296
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: AUSTIN, TEXAS                                LENGTH: Short

COMPUTER CHIP CO-INVENTOR DIES

Robert Noyce, an inventor of the computer chip that revolutionized electronics and helped usher in the Information Age, has died of a heart attack at 62.

The computer pioneer died Sunday at Seton Medical Center.

Working separately in the late 1950s, Noyce and Jack S. Kilby invented the integrated circuit, which made possible rapid gains in computer technology by putting the power of multiple transistors on a single, tiny chip.

Computer chips, or semiconductors, are used in everything from personal computers and pocket calculators to microwaves and medical equipment.

by CNB