The Computer History Museum is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the integrated circuit, pictured above, with a multimedia exhibit called “The Silicon Engine” to explain why many claim the IC as one ...

Demand from NASA and the Air Force gave a major boost to the fledgling semiconductor industry in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Integrated circuits consist of ...

The pedagogical model of the integrated circuit goes something like this: take a silicone wafer, etch out a few wells, dope some of the silicon with phosphorous, mask some of the chip off, dope some ...

Sixty years. But how much longer? In 1958 Jack St. Clair Kilby—from Great Bend, Kan.—created one of the greatest inventions, a great bend, in the history of mankind. Kilby recently had started at ...

- A key GX technology that can be applied to various social infrastructures - TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Using silicon photonics technology for semiconductor optical circuits, OKI (TOKYO: 6703) has ...

You’re probably familiar with the little black boxes nestled neatly inside your favorite devices. With their diminutive size and unassuming characteristics, it can be hard to believe these vessels are ...

Expansion in semiconductor fabrication, industrial automation, and IC innovations like AI-optimized architectures present ...

A flexible chip as thin as a human hair could pave the way for a new generation of electronic wearable clothing, according to ...

The formal name of the chip. An integrated circuit (IC) combines thousands, millions or billions of transistors on a single substrate. A certain number of resistors and capacitors may also reside on ...