Texas Instruments Microchip

It was built by American scientists at the Texas Instruments labs in 1958; the first prototype of a microchip will be auctioned on the 19th of June as a collector’s item, at the initial price of one to two million dollars. Since yesterday, the microchip has been displayed at the exhibit held in Christie Auction House of London.

In the first half of the 20th century, computers occupied whole rooms and everyone wanted someone to conceive a new way of creating smaller machines. On the basis of Jack Kilby’s theories, the very first microchip was engineered by electronic engineer Tom Yeargan who is considered to be the inventor of the microchip. Originally, the executive of Texas Instruments did not believe that it would be possible to shrink an integrated circuit, but he was mistaken. Nowadays, thanks to microchips, we can receive worldwide news in 2000 kilobytes.
Tom Yeargan was awarded the Nobel Prize. In his speech of acceptance, he paid homage to the scientists and technicians who contributed to his invention, starting from the British computer scientist and programmer Alan Turing.