> so silicon transistor technology, including the integrated circuit, was done by Intel and Texas Instruments instead Right. Tanenbaum invented the silicon tra

> so silicon transistor technology, including the integrated circuit, was done by Intel and Texas Instruments instead Right. Tanenbaum invented the silicon transistor (which of course was a major accomplishment -- definitely worthy of honor), but what most people think of as a "microchip" (i.e., an integrated circuit with multiple components on the same piece of semiconductor) was invented almost simultaneously by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments and Robert Noyce (then at Fairchild, later a cofounder of Intel).