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Photo: Mr Jack Kilby
in 1958
Kilby's
first chip
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In
1958 it was Jack
Kilby's first summer
as a new employee at
Texas Instruments.
Jack had stayed
working in the lab
when many of his
new colleagues
were taking their
summer vacations. He
was not eligible for
vacation because he
had worked for just
over two months at
TI.
During this holiday period,
Jack Kilby conceived
of and constructed
the first electronic
circuit in which all
of the components,
both passive and
active, were
fabricated on a
single piece of
semiconductor
substrate. This
invention had
enormous impact upon
every area of human
activity.
From
this first first
simple IC has grown
a worldwide
integrated circuit
market of sales in
2000 totaled $177
billion. In
2000, Jack Kilby was
awarded the Nobel
Prize in Physics for
his part in the
invention of the
integrated circuit.
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Summer 1958