fluidwireThe first integrated circuit was built in 1958. While his colleagues were away on summer break, Texas Instruments engineer Jack Kilby wired up the first working microchip from a single sliver of germanium. Months later Robert Noyce added the silicon planar process - and every microcontroller, sensor, and IoT device since descends from that prototype. Kilby won the 2000 Nobel Prize for it. fluidwire.com
