Birth of Chip!

It was on 12th September,in the year 1958, the Nobel laureate Jack Kilby invented this Micro chip. He showed a piece of germanium with an oscilloscope attched, pressed a switch and there his work comes, the oscilloscope showed continuous sine waves intimating the birth of the microchip!

Jack St. Clair Kilby was born in 1923 in Great Bend, Kan.

Kilby was interested in radio tubes while listening to big band radio. He did his electrical engineering from the universities of Illinois and Wisconsin, and began his career in 1947,developing ceramic-based, silk-screened circuits for electronic products.His invention of Microchip laid the foundation for the Information Technology and now it has turned 50 years! :)

“TI(Texas Instruments) was the only company that agreed to let me work on electronic component miniaturization more or less full time, and it turned out to be a great fit,” Kilby wrote in an autobiography for the Nobel Committee in 2000, the year he won the prize for physics.