All that detail paid off. On April 25, 1961, the patent office awarded the first patent for an integrated circuit to Robert Noyce while Kilby's application was still being analyzed. Today ...

Micro-Modules didn’t reduce the number of components. First integrated circuit. Photo courtesy of Texas Instruments TI had invested a lot of money in working with semiconductors for their ...

Over six decades of integrated circuit production we’ve become used to their extreme reliability and performance for a very reasonable price. But what about those first integrated circuits from ...

In essence, the four-layer diode was the first integrated circuit since it did the work of two transistors, two resistors, and a diode -- all in a single crystal. Unfortunately, they were so ...

An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip or chip, is a miniaturized electronic circuit consisting of transistors, resistors, capacitors, and other components fabricated onto a single ...

Application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) are microchips developed and produced ... Because they are designed for a very specific purpose, ASICs are first specified by their intended application ...