Thursday, June 23, 2005

Inventor of integrated circuit dies

Jack Kilby, <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1830267,00.asp?kc=ewnws062205dtx1k0000599">inventor of the integrated circuit,</A> the basis of the computer chip revolution and foundation of what is now a trillion-dollar industry, died of cancer on Monday. Kilby, 81, made the discovery 47 years ago, when, as a recently hired engineer at Texas Instruments Inc., he was left to work alone in a laboratory while most of his 7,500 colleagues were taking a company-wide summer vacation leave. By hand-wiring together multiple transistors, Kilby's invention

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