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Integrated Circuit (Ic) (Music Technology)

Originally conceived by UK Ministry of Defence scientist, Geoffrey Dummer an integrated circuit is a series of transistors (along with capacitors, resistors etc), working together to perform some task within one discrete unit. The first working model of an IC was patented by Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments as a "Solid Circuit" using Germanium as a semiconductor.
Slightly later (1961), a more advanced device, utilzing silicon as the semiconductive material, and known at the time as a "Unitary Circuit" (Later "Integrated"), was patented by Kenneth (Intel) Noyce when he was working at Fairchild Semiconductor. Intel's Ted Hoff later took IC's to an extreme, when he developed a device known as a "microprocessor", (the Intel 4044).

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