Microchip

Microchip Patent Print "Microchip" Robert N Noyce, July 30, 1959. The Integrated Circuit a.k.a the ‘Microchip’ has probably made more of an impact to the world of computing than any other single invention in the last century. Thanks to advances in microchip design and the application of Moore’s Law, the modern computers are exponentially more powerful with millions of times the capacity and thousands of times the speed of the first computer chips of the early 1970s. An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit (IC) is a set of electronic circuits on one small flat piece of semiconductor material, normally silicon. The integration of large numbers of tiny transistors into a small chip resulted in circuits that are orders of magnitude smaller, cheaper, and faster than those constructed of discrete electronic components.  This patent was filed by Robert Noyce at Fairchild Semiconductor who developed his own idea of an integrated circuit that solved many practical