Skip to Mai Year Event 1823 Baron Jons Jackob Berzelius discovers silicon (Si), which today is the basic component of processors. 1903 Nikola Tesla patented electrical logic circuits called "gates" or "switches" in 1903. 1947 John Bardeen , Walter Brattain , and William Shockley invent the first transistor at the Bell Laboratories on December 23, 1947. 1948 John Bardeen , Walter Brattain , and William Shockley patent the first transistor in 1948. 1956 John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for their work on the transistor. 1958 The first integrated circuit was first developed by Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor and Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments . The first IC was demonstrated on September 12, 1958. 1960 IBM developed the first automatic mass-production facility for transistors in New York in 1960. 1968 Intel...
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