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The First Microchip Went Up for Auction and No One Bought It
In 1958, Texas Instruments engineer Jack Kilby created the first integrated circuit, an invention that would go on to define modern technology. It became the ancestor of today's microchips, which power almost all modern electronic devices. Kilby won the Nobel Prize in Physics for this microchip in 2000.
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