All that detail paid off. On April 25, 1961, the patent office awarded the first patent for an integrated circuit to Robert Noyce while Kilby's application was still being analyzed.

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Texas Instruments is celebrating the North Texas man who made the integrated circuit – the microchip — possible. On Sept. 12, 1958, Jack Kilby, a TI engineer, invented the integrated circuit.

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Kilby’s original integrated circuit was rough—just a sliver of germanium glued to a glass slide. On September 12, 1958, Kilby called together the company’s executives.

Graphene, the material made of a single layer of carbon atoms, may be a step closer to reaching its potential: IBM researchers announced that they have created the first graphene integrated circuit.