Older Than deck / Inventions and everyday things
Microchip (integrated circuit)
Invented
1958
Jack Kilby put several electronic parts on one piece of material.
Sources and checks
Checked 2026-10-19: Claude (AI build agent): Wikidata statement compared, passages containing the year extracted from the fetched pages and read. Quotes are short passages from each source, in their original language.
Wikidata P575: 1958Q80831, CC0, retrieved 2026-10-19
“eller man kan skifte funksjon helt. Historikk Den integrerte kretsen ble oppfunnet av Jack S. Kilby , Texas Instruments Inc , i 1958. I 1960-årene tok man i bruk SSI-kretser (av eng. Small Scale Integration ), blant”Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian): source, retrieved 2026-10-19
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