The image shows the first integrated circuit. It was handmade by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments in 1958 using a bar of germanium in which he formed transistors and resistors by diffusion then wired these components into a circuit by hand.
The first definition, by the electrical code, covers it perfectly.
Yes it does. Capacitors and capacitor banks have a high inrush current when first energized. As an example this is the reason that VFD's place a resistor in series with the capacitors for a short period of time when they are first energized to prevent damage to the rectification componente. They call it a precharge circuit. Current leads voltage by 90 deg in a purely capacitive circuit.
They are very small, yet they contain hundreds of millions of solid-state components. (Novanet)The function of an IC (integrated circuit) chip is to replace many separate electronic components which could possibly have been used to build a particular electronic circuit. Most of those separate components are replaced by just one tiny IC chip that has been manufactured ("fabricated" is the correct technical word) to include extremely miniature circuits which imitate the behavior of all those separate components.There are many reasons why ICs are being used more and more. Here are just a few of them:costs of manufacture: using an IC saves the labor of soldering together all the separate components to make the equivalent circuitspace: using an IC saves the huge amount of space that the circuit would take up if it were built using separate componentsenergy: using an IC saves a lot of electrical energy compared to the same circuit built using separate componentsspeed: using an IC makes the circuit work much faster than it could ever do if it were built using separate components.An IC chip can include tens, hundreds, thousands or many millions of components. ICs are commonly used nowadays to build computers and many other types of electronic devices.
Mary Ann Shadd
Depends on the material it's constructed from, the application for which it's being used and the atmospherics to which it's exposed. I have printed circuit boards from the very first model of an RCA transistor radio made in 1957 and the circuit board as well as the electronics still work.
California
Jack Kilby invented the first integrated circuit - the microchip
Most people recognize Jack Kilby (of Texas Instruments) as the inventor of the Integrated Circuit. The first IC, built in 1958, was a phase-shift oscillator:
Fairchild or Texas Instruments
Jack St. Clair Kilby, with help from Robert Noyce, invented the first integrated circuit in 1958. They were employed by Texas Instruments at the time.
The image shows the first integrated circuit. It was handmade by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments in 1958 using a bar of germanium in which he formed transistors and resistors by diffusion then wired these components into a circuit by hand.
Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments and Robert Noyceof Fairchild Semiconductor working independently of each other invented the first integrated circuit.
The first integrated circuit (see image above) was a germanium bar containing a simple amplifier circuit. It was made and tested in a research lab at Texas Instruments in 1958.
JACK KILBY was invented the first I.C.in12-9-1958.
Jack S. Kilby first successfully demonstrated an integrated circuit, for which he was the cowinner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics, in September 1958.
On September 12, 1958, Jack Kilby demonstrated the first working IC while working for Texas Instruments, although the U.S. patent office awarded the first patent for an integrated circuit to Robert Noyce of Fairchild.
He invented a monolithic integrated circuit using germanium in 1958. While it proved the concept of the monolithic integrated circuit, unfortunately it was not practical for commercial production and sale as the electrical connections between the integrated components on the chip had to be done entirely by hand under a microscope. The first practical monolithic integrated circuit was invented by Robert Noyce in 1959 using silicon.