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February 6, 2023

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Today in 1959, Jack Kilby filed a patent application for the Integrated Circuit, titled “Method of making miniaturized electronic circuit.”

“The University of Illinois gave him only average grades in electrical engineering, a disappointment to his father, who ran an electrical company, and he failed to get into MIT”—Harold Evans, They Made America, 2004.

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In 2000, Kilby was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for “his part in the invention and development of the integrated circuit, the chip. Through this invention microelectronics has grown to become the basis of all modern technology.”

The global integrated circuits market reached $463 billion in 2021.

Drawing from Kilby’s patent application

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