When Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit at our company in 1958, he couldn’t have known that it would someday enable safer cars, smart water meters, ultrasound machines that fit in your pocket and so many more essential applications we rely on today. At TI, our passion is to create a better world by making electronics more affordable through semiconductors. We think of it as Engineering Progress, and Jack’s invention of the IC – plus the decades of subsequent innovation – are some of the

In 1958, a scientist named Jack Kilby walked into his Texas lab during summer break while most of his coworkers were on vacation and built something that would change the world forever the first working integrated circuit, better known today as the microchip. It looked like nothing, a tiny sliver of germanium with a few wires, but it would become the foundation of every computer, phone, and digital device we use today. What's crazy is that his bosses at Texas Instruments didn't even understand t