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Jack St. Clair Kilby, a retired engineer with Texas Instruments who invented the integrated circuit (IC) passed away Monday in Dallas following a brief battle with cancer. He was 81.

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“In my opinion, there are only a handful of people whose works have truly transformed the world and the way we live in it -- Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, the Wright Brothers and Jack Kilby,” said TI chairman Tom Engibous in a statement. “If there was ever a seminal invention that transformed not only our industry but our world, it was Jack’s invention of the first integrated circuit.”

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We all benefited from his invention (they are in everything). May we all aspire to do somthing as great as he did. Rest in peace.

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Being in the electronics/PC field, I'm very sad to hear that...

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Originally posted by Dervish We all benefited from his invention (they are in everything). May we all aspire to do somthing as great as he did. Rest in peace.

I bet I can name loads of things that they aren't in

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Originally posted by George Smiley I bet I can name loads of things that they aren't in

Ok.... well electronic things then (practicly everything these days)...

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Originally posted by Dervish Ok.... well electronic things then (practicly everything these days)...

True. ICs are pretty cool. They have it down to an art where they start with a large, bulky piece of equipment cased in plastic, and by the 5th generation they have created something 10x more efficient that fits into a convenient IC chip.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Circuit

ICs are what I do I'm redesigning a processor to detect errors witin it'self and fix em so you can overclock/run at lower power for my >project<.

Seriously though, this guy was important.

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