First Patent for Integrated Circuit

Date: February 6, 1959 • Location: Richardson, United States

Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.

Jack St. Clair Kilby was an American electrical engineer who took part, along with Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor, in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments in 1958. For this invention, Kilby shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics.