The world’s first microchip is set to sell for $600,000 ahead of the 60th anniversary of its invention. Electrical engineer Jack Kilby built the cutting edge integrated circuit in 1958 along ...

In 1958, Texas Instruments engineer Jack Kilby created the first integrated circuit, an invention that would go on to define modern technology. It became the ancestor of today's microchips, which ...

Kilby’s invention, as refined, patented, and marketed by TI early the following year, did not win instant acceptance from the business world. For one thing, many doubted that the tiny chips ...

June 24, 2005 — -- Jack Kilby was not a household name, but his work is a fixture in the American household. He was the Nobel Prize-winning inventor of the computer chip. Kilby died Monday at ...

And Jack Kilby was just one of many engineers butting heads with a problem dubbed the tyranny of numbers. Reid: In the late 50's you could design a computer that could do anything.

Jack St. Clair Kilby was born in Jefferson City, Mo., on Nov. 8, 1923, and grew up in Great Bend, Kan. His father ran a small power company with customers scattered across rural western Kansas.

Changing the World, the Jack Kilby Way By Ben Worthen Sept. 12, 2008 12:00 am ET Resize ...

An integrated circuit that Texas Instruments' Jack Kilby used in 1958 to demonstrate his invention of the new technology is expected to sell for as much as $2 million at auction.

Kilby, an electrical engineer, had attended a symposium in 1951 at Bell Laboratories, where the invention of the transistor consigned the bulky vacuum tube to the dustbin of electronics history.

The world's first microchip, handmade in 1958 by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments, went up for auction this week, but bids failed to meet the reserve. This piece of history won Kilby a Nobel Prize ...