By January 23, 1959, his idea for the integrated circuit filled four pages of his notebook. And so Jack Kilby at TI and Robert Noyce at Fairchild had independently invented the integrated circuit.

As with many inventions, two people had the idea for an integrated circuit at almost the same time. Transistors had become commonplace in everything from radios to phones to computers, and now ...

and interconnecting metal lines reside on a single chip. The monolithic integrated circuit was invented in 1959 by Fairchild co-founder Robert Noyce. See chip and chip manufacturing. THIS ...

Vacuum-tube technology reached its fundamental limits by the late 1940s. 1950-2000: Transistors are invented, leading to integrated circuits and computer microchips and driving dramatic advancements ...

He also invented the integrated chip, one of the stepping stones along the way to the microprocessors in today's computers. Noyce, the son of a preacher, grew up in Grinnell, Iowa. He was a ...

The formal name of the chip. An integrated circuit (IC) combines thousands, millions or billions of transistors on a single substrate. A certain number of resistors and capacitors may also reside ...