Wednesday, June 24, 2009

The first integrated circuit

Texas Instruments researcher Jack Kilby developed the first integrated circuit in the summer of 1958. Working alone in the TI lab, Kilby refined his idea to make chip components out of the same block of semiconductor material. In September 1958, he demonstrated the world's first integrated circuit, which worked perfectly in all tests.
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