Jack Kilby

My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue. ↗

— Jack Kilby

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Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but it's got a long time. ↗

— Jack Kilby

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The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5. ↗

— Jack Kilby

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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive. ↗

— Jack Kilby

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There was a space program before there was integrated circuits. ↗

— Jack Kilby

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They were the largest semiconductor maker in the world up until about 1980. I'm not sure that that can be re-gained again, but their progress in the last few years has been very impressive. ↗

— Jack Kilby

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They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing. ↗

— Jack Kilby

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This could be done in part, because the equipment was very inexpensive. Not much money was involved in tooling so that basic changes of that type could be accomplished. ↗

— Jack Kilby

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Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits. ↗

— Jack Kilby

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Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go. ↗

— Jack Kilby

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