Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Things get integrated . . .

— the first integrated circuit —
AND THE WORLD CHANGED: on September 12, 1958, Jack Kilby shows his Texas Instruments colleagues a little something he’s built. A very little something: a working integrated circuit on a piece of semiconductor material. 54 years later, we have its logical development below:

— INTEL Core i7 series 900 processor die —

1 comment:

Steve said...

I was thinking along the same lines. in a Science Fiction double Feature.