We know that as the "heart" of many intelligent devices, the importance of chips is self-evident. It is precisely because of its growing power that our electronic equipment has more powerful computing power and more functional integration. Do you know who invented the chip? How did this small and highly integrated hardware device come from in the first place? Today I will tell you about the birth of the chip and its inventor jack kilby.
The physics prize of the Nobel Prize, the highest prize in the world in 2000, was awarded to jack kilby, an engineer from the United States. The main reason why he became a well-deserved winner in that year was his invention and research on integrated circuits. We know that if the chip is the most essential, it is actually an ultra-high integrated circuit. These nano-unit transistors are turned on and off under the impact of electrons, thus carrying out powerful and energy-saving electronic data processing. This form and way of thinking of integrated circuits is exactly the idea of this great American engineer.
Many people may notice that we call him an engineer instead of a scientist, mainly because he was an engineer when he started working for an American electrical component company in 1947. Based on his love for this profession, he began to pursue further studies and study in the university. I devoted myself to this hobby after graduation.
You know, at that time, electronic products were still a single use form of components, but his thinking was very different from this form, that is, he skillfully put all components on a substrate for processing and manufacturing, and connected them through circuits during manufacturing, making them an interconnected whole. Moreover, the basic material he chose is silicon, which is now used to make chips.
How to choose various materials for integration may not be easy for an engineer. So robert noyce, a doctor of physics, became his good partner. Together, they developed and improved the ideas in Jack's mind. In fact, this great invention has been successfully patented in 1958. But unfortunately, both inventors are now dead.
Now the importance of the chip is very important for a country, and human beings are developing very fast in the footsteps of these two predecessors. But no matter how advanced we are now and how brilliant the future is, we should never forget the people who had this idea at the beginning.
I have to say that today's society belongs to the chip age. Without chips, our life would be a mess, and intelligence has been deeply rooted in people's hearts. The invention of the chip is definitely an inter-generational technology!