All that detail paid off. On April 25, 1961, the patent office awarded the first patent for an integrated circuit to Robert Noyce while Kilby's application was still being analyzed. Today ...

Intel led the rapid advance. In 1971, it introduced the first integrated circuit so powerful it could be called a “general-purpose programmable processor” — or microprocessor — the brain ...

A nanometre is one billionth of a metre or a millionth of a millimetre. The integrated circuit was the first of the chips, a forerunner of modern computer chips. Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments ...

The first miner to find the solution to the ... Instead of being general-purpose integrated circuits—like RAM chips, PC processors, or mobile device microprocessors—ASICs employed in ...