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Integrated Circuit Inventor Jack Kilby Dead at 81

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thanks-for-the-ideas dept.

geekotourist writes " Jack Kilby , inventor of the integrated circuit, one winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics (Robert Noyce died in 1990), died June 20th after a brief battle with cancer. In 1958 he invented the foundation for a trillion dollar industry as a substitute for going on vacation." Update: 06/22 02:03 GMT by T : Kilby was 81, not 91 as the headline originally indicated.

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  1. we all gonna die. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    he is dead... and ?

  2. OMFG!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I have a fucking degree in EE, specializing in digi crkt design and I didn't know what this guy did. I certainly am not going to reveal my Alma Mater :-P

    Awesome dood this guy is! I hope he passed away content with life!

  3. Re:... god rest his soul by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    American, you dickless internationalist turd.