Live the year with thankfulness, gratitude, respect, patience, charity, and kindness; don’t forget to laugh and smile often, as they are infectious.
Jack Kirby invented the first integrated circuit (IC) at Texas Instruments in 1958. He admitted, “What we didn’t realize at the time it would reduce the cost of electronic functions by a million to one (remember those first Texas Instruments hand calculators replaced the slide rule overnight). Then he couldn’t have known that it would someday enable safer cars, smart water meters, ultrasound machines that fit in your pocket and so many more essential applications we rely on today”
He said, “He couldn’t have predicted the incremental innovations in semiconductor technology that happened over the next several years and decades to drive down the cost of electronics while shrinking the size and improving reliability and efficiency – ultimately helping to create a better world.”
It has now been 68 years since Jack created his chip that would change the world. Think about just three of his more recent innovations that have improved: medical diagnostics, automobile safety, and water leak detection, ultrasound scanners, and smart probes.
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