History of Semiconductor
The Early Days
The Vacuum Tube Era
Vacuum Tubes Today
Semiconductor Era
First Transistor, Bell Lab, 1947
First Transistor and Its Inventors
First IC Device Made by Jack Kilby of Texas Instrument in 1958
First Silicon IC Chip Made by Robert Noyce of Fairchild Camera in 1961
Advantages of transistors over vacuum tubes
Microprocessors & Microcomputers
Basic Trends in Semiconductors
Moore’s Law
Moore’s Law, Intel’s Version
IC Scales
Feature Size and Wafer Size
Smallest Known Transistor Made by NEC in 1997
Limit of the IC Geometry
Limit of the IC device
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