![]() Today, there are more integrated circuits on Earth than there are people.Imagine standing on the shoulders of the titans of entrepreneurship – some of world’’s most successful and influential individuals – and be able to listen in on their content-rich conversations.Ī few minutes or a hours with these titans – in the flesh – will completely alter the course of your business, your career, your life! ![]() The first semiconductor integrated circuit was built by Fairchild Semiconductor in 1960 under the guidance of Robert Noyce, who would help to found a plucky little startup called Intel. This combined transistors and other components in a single block of material: no wires, no weak connections that could fail. ![]() Like most technologies the integrated circuit has many parents, but key patents were filed in 19 by Sidney Darlington, Bernard Oliver and Harwick Johnson, while in 1958 Texas Instruments’ Jack Kilby invented the first prototype of an integrated circuit. Tubes used enormous amounts of power, and needed replaced almost daily. This meant adding any more components made the device less reliable and harder to run and repair. Without it we wouldn’t have PCs or games consoles, smartphones or Sony Walkmans, in-car entertainment or internet, space shuttles or smart TVs… if you’re a time traveller who wants to prevent the modern world from becoming modern, this is the one to go for.īefore the integrated circuit was invented technology had hit a wall: devices were so complex and used so many components and vacuum tubes that ‘the tyranny of numbers’ kicked in. The integrated circuit changed everything. Credit: Zephyris / Wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0 Arguably the most important creation in modern electronics' history.
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