By January 23, 1959, his idea for the integrated circuit filled four pages of his notebook. And so Jack Kilby at TI and Robert Noyce at Fairchild had independently invented the integrated circuit.

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 ...

Vacuum-tube technology reached its fundamental limits by the late 1940s. 1950-2000: Transistors are invented, leading to integrated circuits and computer microchips and driving dramatic advancements ...

and interconnecting metal lines reside on a single chip. The monolithic integrated circuit was invented in 1959 by Fairchild co-founder Robert Noyce. See chip and chip manufacturing. THIS ...