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Moore鈥檚 鈥淟aw鈥� is not a law of nature or science but an observation by Gordon E. Moore, Director of the Fairchild Semiconductor Research and Development Laboratories in Palo Alto, CA in 1965 that evolved over the years and emerged as one of the most familiar maxims in techdom.
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Christie鈥檚 auction sale notice of the only known phase-shift oscillator circuit built by Nobel Prize winner Jack Kilby in private hands proclaimed him as the inventor 鈥渙f the integrated circuit on a single chip.鈥� While he played an important role in the development of the IC, Kilby鈥檚 1958 prototype was but one of many
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Elizabethan philosopher, statesman, and scientist Sir Francis Bacon observed that 鈥渙nce the right path is followed, discoveries in limitless number will arise from the growing stock of knowledge.鈥� This pattern was readily apparent in the history of the diode, it was repeated in the development of the next great leap fo
The inventors of the transistor and the integrated circuit received Nobel Prizes. The engineering community marks anniversaries of their conception with conferences, banquets, and awards. Occasionally they are even celebrated in the popular media. So why has no one heard of the inventor of the diode?
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