Today’s “Google Doodle” pays tribute to Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel co-founder Robert Noyce, who is largely credited with co-inventing the integrated circuit. Today’s Google Doodle celebrates ...

Dallas, TX (WHTM) The integrated circuit, or microchip, is now an essential part of our lives, and a multi-billion dollar industry. They’re in anything and everything electronic, and they’re why the ...

Today we call it a "chip." His first integrated circuit had one transistor on it and was about one inch by half-inch in size. It was 1959. Only a few months after Kilby's success, Robert Noyce at the ...

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 ...

The technology behind almost every electronics device in the world, the integrated circuit or IC, is celebrating its 50th anniversary on Friday. Its enduring success is thanks in part to two “nice ...

At the time when Jack Kilby’s experiments resulted in the first integrated circuit that was about half the size of a paper clip, computers were about 50 feet long, weighed eight tons, and used more ...