Inventor of the Microchip Passes Away at 81

Jack Kilby, the man that invented the microchip in 1958, passed away on Monday in Dallas, Texas after fighting cancer. He was 81 years old. The man is remembered quite fondly by those who knew him, as well as by the world as a whole. It is certainly hard to imagine what the world would be like today if there were no microchips. "Without it, there could be no personal computer, no mobile phone, no space program, no Internet, no pacemakers or PlayStations," Dean Takahashi of Mercury News quoted T.R. Reid of the Washington Post as writing back in 2000. "The integrated circuit has changed the daily life of the world as fundamentally as did the light bulb, the telephone and the horseless carriage." 2000 was the year that Mr. Kilby won a Nobel Prize in physics for his work, though his technology was used around the world for decades before that. Takahashi murdok. Visit murdok for the