Multiple choice general knowledge

Working separately, what two men created the first integrated circuits around 1959, allowing for modern computers?

  1. G.W.A. Dummer and Edward Skinner

  2. Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce

  3. Steven Jobs and John Gibbons

  4. Tedd Hoff and William Maggie
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Explanation

Jack Kilby (Texas Instruments) and Robert Noyce (Fairchild Semiconductor) independently invented the integrated circuit in 1958-1959, for which they later received the Nobel Prize in Physics. This breakthrough enabled modern microprocessors and computers. Dummer proposed the idea earlier, and Jobs, Gates, and Hoff came later.

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