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The King is Dead. Long Live the King. In 1959 two engineers at Texas Instruments, Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce, changed the world in the most profound way since the internal combustion engine. The microchip had been born, and with it every aspect of military and consumer technology would be changed in ways no one prior to that moment could have imagined. In the 62 years that have followed, the microchip has been the absolute center of innovation, from guided missiles, GPS, digital cameras, personal computers, smart phones, and all the services enabled by the internet. It is an enabling technology, the Core Technology of this era. It has c...