In the early 1950s, Robert Noyce was working on his doctorate at MIT, in Cambridge near Boston.
He and Texas Instruments' Jack Kilby are credited with inventing the integrated circuit.
[citation needed] In 1968, Noyce and Gordon Moore started Intel in Mountain View.
Elizabeth loved New England, so the family acquired a 50-acre coastal summer home in Bremen, Maine.
[1] Noyce, a smoker, developed emphysema, and died from a heart attack on September 18, 1996, aged 65, at her home.