Jack St. Clair Kilby, a retired engineer with Texas Instruments who invented the integrated circuit (IC) passed away Monday in Dallas following a brief battle with cancer. He was 81. Kilby invented ...

"If there was ever a seminal invention that transformed not only our industry but our world, it was Jack's invention of the first integrated circuit." Kilby, who stood 6 foot 6, ...

A string of accolades over the past few decades notwithstanding, Jack St. Clair Kilby is a modest man. So the inventor, sometimes called the father of the integrated circuit, was surprised about his ...

Noyce’s monolithic integrated circuit process used precision photolithography to simultaneously create transistors, capacitors and resistors side by side in a single silicon wafer.

Inventor Of IC Receives Nobel Prize News from E-InSite This year’s Nobel Prize for Physics has gone to three scientists responsible for theorigins of semiconductors, including the American inventor of ...

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.

Jack Kilby, whose work on integrated circuits in the 1950s ushered in the digital era, died Monday after a battle with cancer. He was 81. In the summer of 1958, while working at Texas Instruments ...

Jack Kilby, the American engineer who invented the integrated circuit, has died at the age of 81 after a battle with cancer. Mr. Kilby's invention formed the basis of the computer chip -- sparking ...