The 'chip' (solid state intergrated circuit) was invented by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments in 1957.
Jack got the Nobel Prize in physics for this invention.
One of the leading figures in computing algorithms, the late Edsger Dijkstra, taught at the University of Texas. And down the road a bit, the creator of the C++ language, Bjarne Stroustup, is the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Science at Texas A&M. He might be one Aggie more famous than Johnny Manziel...well, at least to geeks. And to this day, the most widely-used DSP chips come from Texas Instruments.