Integrated Circuit
First proposed by G. W. A. Dunner in 1952.
- 1965 - 30 transistor devices
- 1975 - 65000 transistor devices
- 1989 - Intel 486 processor had 1.4 million transistors
- 2002 - Intel P4 had 55 million transistors
- 2011 - Intel i5 2500K had 1.16 billion transistors
- 1975 - 65000 transistor devices
- Ultra Large Scale Integration (ULSI)
- a chip with over 1,000,000 components.
- Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI)
- An integrated crcuit with 100,000 to 1,000,000 components.
See also: Chip, Circuit, Dual Inline Package, Flip Chip, Hybrid IC, Large Scale Integration, Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, Microcircuit, Microelectronics, Moore′s Law, Wafer, Zero Insertion Force Socket.
Subjects: Electronics