• The first planar monolithic integrated circuit (IC) chip was demonstrated in 1960. The idea of integrating electronic circuits into a single device was...
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    An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip or simply chip, is a set of electronic circuits, consisting of various electronic components (such...
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    A hybrid integrated circuit (HIC), hybrid microcircuit, hybrid circuit or simply hybrid is a miniaturized electronic circuit constructed of individual...
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  • Jack Kilby (category Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering)
    took part, along with Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor, in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI)...
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    Robert Noyce (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
    create the semiconductor division for the traitorous eight. Noyce was vital to the invention of the integrated circuit. After Jack Kilby invented the first...
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    is the process of creating an integrated circuit (IC) by combining millions or billions of MOS transistors onto a single chip. VLSI began in the 1970s...
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  • of Intel Corporation. He was also renowned for his 1959 invention of the integrated circuit. The medal is funded by Intel Corporation and was first awarded...
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    subfield of physics and electrical engineering which uses active devices such as transistors, diodes, and integrated circuits to control and amplify the flow...
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  • Jean Hoerni (category Swiss emigrants to the United States)
    conceptions of the device. With Noyce, Jack Kilby from Texas Instruments is usually credited with the invention of the integrated circuit, but Kilby's...
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  • the invention of the integrated circuit, or microchip 1999: John H. Holland, founder of genetic algorithms and innovative research in the science of complexity...
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    Integrated circuit packaging is the final stage of semiconductor device fabrication, in which the die is encapsulated in a supporting case that prevents...
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    Layout designs (topographies) of integrated circuits are a field in the protection of intellectual property. In United States intellectual property law...
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  • voltages than vacuum tubes to work. Before the invention of the integrated circuit in 1959, electronic circuits were constructed from discrete components...
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    Kurt Lehovec (category Fellows of the American Physical Society)
    2012) was a Czech-American physicist. He one of the pioneers of the integrated circuit. While also pioneering the photo-voltaic effect, light-emitting diodes...
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    gradually gave way to the name electronic engineering. Before the invention of the integrated circuit in 1959, electronic circuits were constructed from...
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    Allen Clark Research Centre (category History of telecommunications in the United Kingdom)
    fibres in the mid-1980s. The site is now Caswell Science Park, run by Lumentum Technology UK. Invention of the integrated circuit Timeline of electrical...
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    his part of the invention of the integrated circuit. Noyce's chip, made at Fairchild, was made of silicon, while Kilby's chip was made of germanium. In...
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    A mixed-signal integrated circuit is any integrated circuit that has both analog circuits and digital circuits on a single semiconductor die. Their usage...
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  • like the co-invention of the integrated circuit – was fundamental for the signal processor and related digital signal processing development. The award...
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    often packaged into integrated circuits. Complex devices may have simple electronic representations of Boolean logic functions. The binary number system...
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    Moore's law (redirect from Law of doubling)
    Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years. Moore's law is an observation...
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    The Nobel Prize in Physics (Swedish: Nobelpriset i fysik) is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields...
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    printed circuit board or PCB) and solder the components to these interconnections to create a finished circuit. In an integrated circuit or IC, the components...
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    Read-only memory (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from November 2013)
    With the invention of the integrated circuit came mask ROM. Mask ROM consists of a grid of word lines (the address input) and bit lines (the data output)...
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    1959. The invention of the silicon integrated circuit led to the idea of incorporating it onto a plastic card in the late 1960s. The idea of incorporating...
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    co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, credited with the invention of the integrated circuit or microchip Kay A. Orr, Governor of Nebraska and the first...
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  • - The Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony 2000". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2024-12-10. "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred...
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  • P–n junction isolation (category Integrated circuits)
    isolate electronic components, such as transistors, on an integrated circuit (IC) by surrounding the components with reverse biased p–n junctions. By surrounding...
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  • A three-dimensional integrated circuit (3D IC) is a MOS (metal-oxide semiconductor) integrated circuit (IC) manufactured by stacking as many as 16 or more...
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    used to implement an integrated circuit. Integrated circuit topographies are protected in Canadian law by the Integrated Circuit Topography Act (S.C....
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