FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -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, both men are acknowledged as having independently conceived of the idea. Copyright 1999, ScienCentral, Inc, and The American Institute of Physics.

Detailed explanation-2: -Jack St. Clair Kilby (November 8, 1923 – June 20, 2005) was an American electrical engineer who took part (along with Robert Noyce of Fairchild) in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1958. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on December 10, 2000.

Detailed explanation-3: -”’ By inventing the integrated circuit (IC), now commonly called the microchip, Jack Kilby reduced the “tyranny of numbers” to one. Suddenly, engineers really could design a computer that could do anything.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1959, Robert Noyce at Fairchild Semiconductor invented the monolithic integrated circuit (IC) chip. It was made of silicon, whereas Kilby’s chip was made of germanium.