Tuesday, April 25, 1961: Integrated circuit

Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. in Mountain View, California, is granted a patent for a "Semiconductor Device-and-Lead Structure" -- a type of integrated circuit that allowed for much smaller and far fewer components in electronic devices.

* Definition of integrated circuit (from businessdictionary.com): @

* Summary from Computer History Museum: @

* Patent: @

* Short biography of Noyce and more links: @

* "Transistorized!" (from pbs.org): @

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