Semiconductor Device-and-Lead Structure. U.S. patent 2,981,877, filed on July 30, 1959, granted on April 25, 1961

by Robert Norton Noyce

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First edition

Washington D.C. United States Patent Office, 1961 . / First edition, extremely rare, of the first patent to issue for the practical monolithic integrated circuit. Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments had demonstrated an earlier working solid circuit, but Kilby's germanium device, hand-wired, did not provide a manufacturing architecture suitable for large-scale production. Noyce's invention, developed independently at Fairchild Semiconductor on the basis of Jean

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