Creating a silicon era
At the time, he probably did not really realize the value of this invention. After the Nobel Prize, he said: "I know I invented the integrated circuit is very important for the electronics industry, but I never thought it would be like today widely applied."
IC replaced the transistor, for the development of the various functions of electronic products paved the way, and a significant reduction in the cost, since the third generation of electronic devices on stage. Its birth, the emergence of the microprocessor as possible, but also to ordinary computer into everyday tools can get close. Application integration technology, spawned more convenient electronic products, such as the common hand-held electronic calculator, Kilby is a new invention of integrated circuits, following after. Until today, the silicon material is still the main material of our electronic devices. So, in 2000, 42 years after the advent of integrated circuits, people finally realized that he and his value invention, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. Nobel Committee has commented Kilby: "laid the foundation for modern information technology."
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