1958 was the year that saw Morris Chang (future founder of TSMC in Taiwan), Pat Haggerty (future chairman of Texas Instruments), Jay Lathrop (co-inventor of photolithography for solid-state chips at Texas Instruments), and Jack Kilby (co-inventor of integrated circuits at Texas Instruments and future Nobel Prize winner) all working together at Texas Instruments. In Washington, DC, there was a conference attended by Morris Chang, Gordon Moore (co-founder of Fairchild and later of Intel), Bob Noyce (co-founder of Fairchild and later of Intel and co-inventor of integrated circuits at Fairchild); then they all went out for a beer together. After the pub, they walked through the cold sidewalks of the American capital to return to their hotels. Anyone who saw them would never imagine that they were the future titans of technology, a technology that would change the lives of billions of people across the planet.
