Integrated circuit is 50 years old today

And what did the first one do? Synthesis!!! Yes!!!

"The first microchip (pictured) was first demonstrated by Jack Kilby from Texas Instruments on 12 September 1958. It might not be much to look at, but then Texas Instruments admits that Kilby often remarked that if he’d known he’d be showing the first working integrated circuit for the next 40-plus years, he would’ve ‘prettied it up a little.’ The chip worked, though, producing a sine wave on an oscilloscope screen at the demo."

link to article on custompc Thanks goes to John Levin for this one.