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An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit is an electronic circuit manufactured by the patterned diffusion of trace elements into the surface of a thin substrate of semiconductor material...

Timeline of Events

1952

5.7.1952

The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.

1958

9.12.1958

Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit.

1959

2.6.1959

Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.

1961

4.25.1961

Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.