Fifty years ago to the day on September 12, 1958, the microchip was born – now we’re celebrating its 50th Birthday and you’re all invited.
Now found almost everywhere, in every home and workplace from devices as big as supercomputers right down to something as small as a credit card – you’d have a hard time trying to find a device without one.
When the microchip was born, it looked a little different, delivered by Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments the chip consisted of a strip of germanium with just one transistor and other components all glued onto the glass side.
This small inspiration revolutionised electronics, the world even – at seven 16ths of an inch by one 16th of an inch who’d have thought it? The microchip is of vast importance to where we are at now with technology, it basically gave birth to the modern computer industry and as for the internet – well it simply wouldn’t be.
Other areas which have benefited incredibly from this little chip include modern communications, medicine, transport, commerce and manufacturing – it really has impacted the modern world. “Integrated circuits are so woven into our lives that it would be hard to imagine a world without them. The integrated circuit is the engine of the information age,” explains Jim Tully, chief of research at Gartner.
The microchip has had such incredible success due to the low cost in manufacturing alongside its efficient performance and low power consumption. ยต
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