American - Scientist | November 8, 1923 - June 20, 2005
I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
Jack Kilby
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Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits.
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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.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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The groups that have awarded them are all a little different. It's a little hard to single out any one for that, but I think the dedication of this building would have to go toward the top of the list.
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I think it's doing very well. I'm pleased to see the concentration on semiconductors. I think this will help.
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
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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.
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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.
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Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.
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I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.
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I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.
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