All that detail paid off. 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 ...

Over six decades of integrated circuit production we’ve become used to their extreme reliability and performance for a very reasonable price. But what about those first integrated circuits from ...

Micro-Modules didn’t reduce the number of components. First integrated circuit. Photo courtesy of Texas Instruments TI had invested a lot of money in working with semiconductors for their ...

A tech firm has just demonstrated that a computer chip using light and the speed at which it moves for processing handles ...

A photonic integrated circuit is an integrated circuit with optical functions. Optical signals travel at the speed of light, which is faster than electronic signals. This speed is appealing, but ...

today announced the sample availability of its first heterogeneously integrated silicon photonics-based 1.6Tb DR8 PICs (Photonic Integrated Circuit) on Tower Semiconductor PH18DA process utilizing ...

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 ...

Research in integrated circuits and systems in the CU Boulder Department of Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering is focused on the grand challenge in today’s and future integrated systems, which ...