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Originally posted by Netchicken
What!
Do you mean that the IC wasn't back engineered from crashed alien spacecraft, but invented by a puny human!
Originally posted by netchicken
What!
Do you mean that the IC wasn't back engineered from crashed alien spacecraft, but invented by a puny human!
He must have been a great inventer, pity he wasn't lauded more for his creation whilst he was alive.
Someone tell the Alien and UFO forum....
Originally posted by topsecretombomb
god bless mr kilby
ABOUT JACK
The Chip that Jack Built Changed the World
Integrated Circuit It was a relatively simple device that Jack Kilby showed to a handful of co-workers gathered in TI's semiconductor lab more than 40 years ago -- only a transistor and other components on a slice of germanium. Little did this group of onlookers know, but Kilby's invention, 7/16-by-1/16-inches in size and called an integrated circuit, was about to revolutionize the electronics industry.
The Answer to a Problem
It was in a relatively deserted laboratory at TI's brand new Semiconductor Building where Jack Kilby first hit on the idea of the integrated circuit. In July 1958, when most employees left for the traditional two-week vacation period, Kilby -- as a new employee with no vacation -- stayed to man the shop.
ABOUT JACK
Overview
Jack Kilby with Integrated CircuitThere are few men whose insights and professional accomplishments have changed the world. Jack Kilby is one of these men. His invention of the monolithic integrated circuit - the microchip - some 45 years ago at Texas Instruments (TI) laid the conceptual and technical foundation for the entire field of modern microelectronics. It was this breakthrough that made possible the sophisticated high-speed computers and large-capacity semiconductor memories of today's information age.
ABOUT JACK
So, What If He Had Gone on Vacation?
Jack Kilby describes how he developed the world's first integrated circuits.
"After several interviews, I was hired by Willis Adcock of Texas Instruments. My duties were not precisely defined, but it was understood that I would work in the general area of microminiaturization. Soon after starting at TI in May 1958, I realized that since the company made transistors, resistors, and capacitors, a repackaging effort might provide an effective alternative to the Micro-Module. I therefore designed an IF amplifier using components in a tubular format and built a prototype. We also performed a detailed cost analysis, which was completed just a few days before the plant shut down for a mass vacation.
Originally posted by Phugedaboudet
and at no time in his life did he make, even adjusted for inflation, half of what a flash-in-the-pan pop starlet or loud sneaker-selling sports star makes in a year.