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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedThe planar IC: revolution underestimated.(MILESTONE THAT MATTERED)
EDN, April, 2006 by Wright, Maury
Born in the labs of Fairchild Semiconductor and Texas Instruments in the 1958 time frame, the planar IC finally emerged in 1960; Fairchild shipped it in March 1991. Robert Noyce, the co-founder of Fairchild, and Jack Kilby, an engineer at Texas Instruments, both built early ICs in the lab, and both received patents, which the two companies subsequently cross-licensed. Early recognition of the significance of the IC was underwhelming. But the planar IC became perhaps the single innovation that has had the greatest impact on the high-technology industry and arguably our entire society because electronics underlie advancements in everything from medical procedures to transportation.
EDN's early coverage of the IC explicitly questioned its value. You can read...
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