Kilby and Noyce invented the integrated circuit at almost the same time, and both are considered to be the inventor of the integrated circuit, and Noyce invented the silicon integrated circuit is more suitable for commercial production, so that the integrated circuit has entered the commercial scale production stage.
The invention of the integrated circuit opened up a new era of miniaturization of electronic devices and led people into the information society. Its birth made the emergence of the microprocessor possible, but also make the computer into people's production, life in all areas, become an indispensable tool for people to work, study, entertainment, and at the beginning of the birth of the computer, it is a behemoth that can only exist in the laboratory.
In 1959, Noyce invented the world's first silicon integrated circuit with a flat process, and Fairchild Semiconductor has since ushered in the golden age of the semiconductor industry.
However, the commercialization of Fairchild Semiconductor has also been notable, even in 1967 there was a loss, and since then it has been accompanied by the departure of the soul character and all the way down until the final acquisition
The first silicon chip was invented in 1947.
Early computers used a device in circuit design called a vacuum tube (inventor: John Fleming), which acted as a gate to open and close electrical currents to direct the computer's function and store information. However, these are fragile components that often fail during normal operation. In 1947, the invention of the transistor (inventor: William Shockley) replaced the vacuum tube in computer design, and these small parts needed semiconductor materials to work. Early transistors contained germanium, but eventually silicon became the semiconductor of choice for computer designers.