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From BBC News | Technology | World Edition:
Next month is the 50th anniversary of the invention of the microchip. Dan Simmons travels to Texas, the home of the chip, to look back at its past and forward to its future.
The microchip was created in Dallas in 1958 by Jack Kilby soon after he joined chip giant Texas Instruments (TI).
The insight that led Mr Kilby to this breakthrough was his realisation that if all the bits of an electric circuit were made from the same material then the whole thing could be printed on a single chip. It would be small and easy to mass produce.
Half a century on from that momentous insight and the ubiquity of the chip is well proven. But Texas Instruments, currently the world's third largest chip maker, wants to take it further and to do so it is busy trying to break another electronic frontier.
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