The groups that have awarded them are all a little different. It’s a little hard to single out any one for that, but I think the dedication of this building would have to go toward the top of the list. Jack Kilby Read Quote
I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers. Jack Kilby Read Quote
Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits. Jack Kilby Read Quote
Well, it’s very dangerous to project, but it’s clear that the existing technology has some more years to go. Jack Kilby Read Quote
They were the largest semiconductor maker in the world up until about 1980. I’m not sure that that can be re-gained again, but their progress in the last few years has been very impressive. Jack Kilby Read Quote
It’s also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company. Jack Kilby Read Quote
Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but it’s got a long time. Jack Kilby Read Quote
How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we’re still pretty competitive? Oh, yes. Jack Kilby Read Quote
