To bolster its semiconductor industry, China has rolled out a wide range of favorable policies for the integrated circuit (IC) and software industries – tax breaks, favorable financing, IP protection, ...

All that detail paid off. On April 25, 1961, the patent office awarded the first patent for an integrated circuit to Robert Noyce while Kilby's application was still being analyzed.

In response to the multitude of critical comments on the original version of my previous post, I took a deeper look at the case of integrated circuits. Based on that, I’m prepared to offer at ...