Biography|Robert Noyce — Pronounced Dead at Seton After a Morning Swim

People treat Noyce's last chapter as a Silicon Valley story.

He died in Austin, where he had moved to run Sematech.

On the morning of Sunday 3 June 1990 he finished a swim at his Austin house, suffered a heart attack, and was taken to Seton Medical Center at 1201 West 38th Street.

Hospital staff pronounced him dead minutes after he arrived, about 10 a.m.

He was 62.

He had been president and chief executive of Sematech since 1988, the government-industry consortium set up to keep U.S. chip factories competitive.

The consortium's budget that year was about $200 million, split between Washington and fourteen member firms, Intel among them.

Obituaries the next day called him the Mayor of Silicon Valley and an inventor of the integrated circuit.

The house where the attack began is a private address and is not the pin.

The hospital still operates on this block, now under the Ascension Seton name.

It is not Dell Seton, the later downtown teaching hospital on Red River Street.

A visitor finds a working medical campus, not a memorial.

Burial was not marked in a public cemetery.

The last public place on the record is this emergency entrance.

Photo: Robert Noyce at Intel, 1970. Intel Free Press, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Portrait taken twenty years before the morning in Austin.