After graduation, kilby went to an unknown electronics company. At the age of 34, he joined the world-famous company TI and became an integrated circuit R&D engineer. The unconventional thinking that may have been cultivated since childhood, when other engineers are having a headache for many circuit solder joints, kilby creatively put forward the idea of making circuit components and wires in a piece of semiconductor material, which is the early model of integrated circuits today.
So when he was 35 years old, 1958, 12 in September, he and another small partner invented the integrated circuit IC, which opened the prelude to the information revolution in the 20th century and announced the arrival of the information age. This child is the famous robert noyce, the founder of Intel and the father of Silicon Valley in the United States. Since the first chip, semiconductor technology has made rapid progress. The famous "Moore's Law" has also appeared in the semiconductor industry, which means that the number of crystals on integrated circuits doubles every 18 months, unchanged for 35 years, and the growth rate is still very fast. 1959 In February, kilby's integrated circuit obtained the US patent 3 138743, and in July, another integrated circuit invented by Noyce obtained the US patent 298 1877. In 2000, the Royal Swedish Academy of Science realized that semiconductor chips had changed the world and awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics to kilby. At that time, kilby was 77 years old, but Noyce missed the prize because of his death.