Avionics Progressed From Tubes to Silicon Microcircuits
Credit: INTEL
The remarkable technological advances of the last half-century can be attributed to two inventions: the transistor in late 1947 by three Bell Laboratories scientists, and the semiconductor microcircuit in early 1959 by Jack S. Kilby of Texas Instruments. The metal-over-oxide technique for...
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