Happy birthday Jack, and thank you

It was integrated circuits that made Moore’s observation possible. You can’t scale something unless you have the thing, and six-foot-six Jack Kilby gave us that thing—the integrated circuit. Fifty-six years ago, in a little lab on Forest Lane, Dallas Texas Kilby asked the basic question: “Why do we need the wires? If I make parts out of all of the same material, I could carve them into a block of that material and no wires.” That question and the resultant answer changed the world. In 2000, Kilby was awarded a Nobel Prize for his disruptive and amazing invention, and the