{"id":2621,"date":"2005-06-25T00:47:56","date_gmt":"2005-06-24T23:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2005\/06\/25\/jack-s-kilby-an-inventor-of-the-microchip-is-dead-at-81\/"},"modified":"2005-06-25T00:47:56","modified_gmt":"2005-06-24T23:47:56","slug":"jack-s-kilby-an-inventor-of-the-microchip-is-dead-at-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2005\/06\/jack-s-kilby-an-inventor-of-the-microchip-is-dead-at-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack S. Kilby, an Inventor of the Microchip, Is Dead at 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/rip.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><em>It has just been brought to my attention that Jack Kilby, inventor of the integrated circuit, died on Monday. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>His death, after a brief battle with cancer, was announced yesterday by Texas Instruments, the Dallas-based electronics company where he worked for a quarter-century.<\/p>\n<p>The integrated circuit that Mr. Kilby designed shortly after arriving at Texas Instruments in 1958 served as the basis for modern microelectronics, transforming a technology that permitted the simultaneous manufacturing of a mere handful of transistors into a chip industry that routinely places billions of Lilliputian switches in the area of a fingernail.<\/p>\n<p>His achievement &#8211; the integration &#8211; yielded a thin chip of crystal connecting previously separate components like transistors, resistors and capacitors within a single device. For that creation, commonly called the microchip, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/06\/22\/business\/22kilby.html?ex=1122091200&#038;en=fc00218a57f01ecf&#038;ei=5095&#038;partner=REPRISE&#038;excamp=reprise_engine=google_kw=Jack_Kilby_ag=T_Inventor_of_Microchip_Dead_at_81_cn=062205\" rel=\"external\">Read More&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has just been brought to my attention that Jack Kilby, inventor of the integrated circuit, died on Monday. His death, after a brief battle with cancer, was announced yesterday by Texas Instruments, the Dallas-based electronics company where he worked for a quarter-century. The integrated circuit that Mr. Kilby designed shortly after arriving at Texas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}