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The Microchip Paves the Way:
In the mid-1960s, computers shrank in size and grew in popularity thanks to the integrated circuit, or microchip, invented by engineers Jack Kilby (right) and Robert Noyce in 1958. The microchip, which put a roomful of computing power onto a fingernail-size chip, paved the way for such communication breakthroughs as personal computers, the Internet and smartphones. |