Behold the raw, elemental beauty of the world's first monolithic Integrated Circuit

See http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/06/... for more details.

The relevant paragraph: "Robert N. Noyce, co-founder of chip giant Intel Corp., is credited with developing the manufacturing process that made economical the wide-scale production of integrated circuits. Kilby and Noyce bickered for years over the other's claim to have invented the integrated circuit. Ultimately, the two agreed to share credit. In 1995, Kilby was awarded the Robert N. Noyce Award, the Semiconductor Industry Association's highest honor. When Kilby won the Nobel Prize, he invited Intel's other founder, Gordon Moore, to the ceremony as a gesture to the contribution of Noyce, who died in 1990. Nobel Prizes are not awarded posthumously."

But, technically, Kilby's chip counts because it was a circuit on a semiconductor substrate. It just looks odd because that image is blown up considerably, the real size is 0.040 x 0.062 inches. A modern IC would look substantially similar under a high enough magnification.