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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814127403321

Autore

Bassett Ross Knox <1959->

Titolo

To the digital age : research labs, start-up companies, and the rise of MOS technology / / Ross Knox Bassett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002

ISBN

9780801873495

0-8018-7349-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (440 p.)

Collana

Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology

Disciplina

621.39/732/09

Soggetti

Metal oxide semiconductors - History

Electronics - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: 1 How a Bad Idea Became Good (to Some) -- THE EMERGENCE OF THE MOSTRANSISTOR, 1945-1963 -- 2 Back from the Frontier -- IBM RESEARCH AND THE FORMATION OF THE LSI PROGRAM, 1951-1965 -- 3 Development at Research -- THE RESEARCH PHASE OF IBM'S MOS PROGRAM, 1963-1967 -- 4 MOS in a Bipolar Company -- FAIRCHILD AND THE MOS TRANSISTOR, 1963-1968 -- 5 It Takes an Industry -- THE MOS COMMUNITY -- 6 The End of Research -- INTEL AND THE MOSTRANSISTOR, 1968-1975 -- 7 IBM -- MOS AND THE VISIBLE HAND, 1967-1975 -- 8 The Logic of MOS -- INTEL AND THE MICROPROCESSOR, 1968-1975 -- Conclusion/Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Organizational Charts -- Appendix 2: Sources for Tables -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"The definitive history of how the transistor was transformed from an analog into a truly digital device." -- IEEE Spectrum.