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Six years later he sold it to Ferranti.
He also introduced the phase-locked loop.
He wrote several books about electronics but also one about religion addressing the question: ‘Does God exist?’
Moral: Great minds have catholic interests
Fable: The Great Designer Who Questioned God
53 years ago, a Swiss guy who designed one of the most famous chips ever made, founded a semiconductor company.
Also may be a typo and perhaps it was 52 not 72 years ago.
Swiss and PLL makes me think of Hans Camenzind, so the chip must be the 555. The Ferranti connection was new to me, but Wikipedia records the sale of Interdesign to them so confirming my thoughts.
That was a hard one, but it looks like Hans Camenzind who also designed the ubiquitous 555 timer IC for Signetics.
Was the company Interdesign?, I have one of their booklets with lots of useful bipolar i.c. designs which also had the Ferranti logo if I remember correctly.
Absolutely Fred and Valgamaa spot on – it was Hans Camezind with Interdesign.