The concept behind an integrated chip is relatively simple: an entire electrical circuit with numerous transistors, wires, and other electrical devices all built into a single square of silicon.

As with many inventions, two people had the idea for an integrated circuit at ... He also realized a whole circuit could be made on a single chip. While Kilby had hammered out the details of ...

The formal name of the chip. An integrated circuit (IC) combines thousands, millions or billions of transistors on a single substrate. A certain number of resistors and capacitors may also reside ...

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 ...