Texas Instruments and Fairchild semiconductor both announce the integrated circuit in 1959. Ivan Sutherland demonstrates a program called Sketchpad on a TX-2 mainframe at MIT's Lincoln Labs in ...

Integrated Circuits . 1958: Invention of the Integrated Circuit. Texas Instruments' first IC. As with many inventions, two people had the idea for an integrated circuit at almost the same time ...

His invention, the "integrated circuit," would launch the information age. A man in the same league with Thomas Edison, the Wright Brothers and Alexander Graham Bell was born in Jefferson City.

An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip or chip, is a miniaturized electronic circuit consisting of transistors, resistors, capacitors, and other components fabricated onto a single ...