this paper projects twelve present day trends into the coming decades. ...

The transistor has become the fundamental building block of all computing and communications systems. A remarkable progression of regular and persistent reductions in size and cost has resulted in ever-greater functionality per unit of silicon. ...

This paper reviews the history of integrated circuit (IC) design and the major problems confronting IC designers. It also looks at current ideas on the directions that electronics system design may take, so that the industry can continue to... ...

This paper begins with a historical review of that revolution�from the first integrated circuit to modern very large scale integration (VLSI) technology�and then reviews the development of present-day microelectronics manufacturing technology......

For more than thirty years, the capability of the integrated circuit (IC)�whether it is memory size, processor speed, or cost per transistor�has increased at an exponential rate. ...

Invented in 1971, the microprocessor evolved from the inventions of the transistor (1947) and the integrated circuit (1958). Essentially a computer on a chip, it is the most advanced application of the transistor. ...

This paper traces the key steps that led to the invention of the integrated circuit (IC)....

This paper describes the events that led to the invention of the point-contact transistor in December of 1947. It continues with the development of the theory of the junction......

The newest workstations and servers, targeting computationally-intensive applications and large-scale database management, use 64-bit microprocessors and provide the next generation of computing power. ...

Input voltage capacitors are typically the parts that fail first in a high power circuit. Today�s requirements for increasingly smaller packages is driving high component densities in power systems, as in all systems. As the package size... ...