While gathering technical documentation, he found some interesting information on the Apollo Guidance Computer and felt that was the way to go. The AGC was the first integrated circuit computer ...

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 ...

First integrated circuit. Photo courtesy of Texas Instruments ... s Crucial Funding Flatpack ICs used in the Apollo guidance computer When Fairchild and TI started releasing IC products in 1961 ...

Texas Instruments manufactured the first practical ... Hyatt took the integrated circuit a step further by including in one place all the pieces necessary to operate a computer (except memory ...

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

Integrated circuits (IC ... where students learn through a lot of real circuit examples and projects. Students who are working on or plan to work on areas related to microprocessor design, computer ...

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 ...