That honor goes to Intel for the 4004. We pick up the tale with Robert Noyce, who had co-invented the IC while at Fairchild Semiconductor. In July 1968 he left Fairchild to co-found Intel for the ...

In 1957, Fairchild Semiconductor became the third company in Silicon Valley. Of course it wasn't called Silicon Valley then, since the whole silicon industry was just starting to evolve.

1965: An IC that cost $1000 in 1959 now costs less ... Its mission is to explore the "architecture of information." Fairchild Semiconductor introduces a 256-bit RAM chip in 1970.