Also, that Nyan is etched into 200 nanometer thick copper foil and is the work ... transistors and integrated circuits at home. While there won’t be chips with millions of transistors coming ...

He also realized a whole circuit could be made on a single chip. While Kilby had hammered out the details of making individual components, Noyce thought of a much better way to connect the parts.

[Danko]’s minimal circuit is about as small as possible for the DIP version of the venerable 555 chip. The BOM is stripped to the bone: just the chip, three resistors, a capacitor, and an LED.