Modern Era · North America · Technology

1958

Integrated circuit demonstrated

1958

Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments and Robert Noyce at Fairchild independently figured out how to put multiple transistors on a single slice of silicon. The chip had been born. Within a decade Noyce would found Intel and begin the long march to a computer on every desk, and eventually in every pocket.

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Also in 1958 (4 other events on record)
Era

Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.