Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Back Cover

Index:
FOREWORD	Three Bright Mice;, page iii   and More, on the Run!
	State of the Art, page v   INTRODUCTION
1947	The Birth of Modern Electronics, page 2   The Point-Contact Transistor
1950	Solid-State Electronics Goes Commercial, page 4   The Junction Transistor
1958	The Microelectronic Revolution Begins, page 6   The First IC
1959	The Most Efficient Way to Make Transistors, page 8   The Planar Process
1961	Putting the Planar Process to Good Use, page 10   The First Planar IC
1962	A New Form of Transistor, page 12   The Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor
1963	Resistor - Transistor Logic, page 14   The 907
1964	The First Linear IC, page 16   The µA702 Operational Amplifier
1965	A Semiconductor Best-Seller, page 18   The µA709 Operational Amplifier
1966	Storing Data Through Magnetization, page 20   Magnetic-Bubble Memories
1967	The First IC Made with Computer-Aided Design, page 22   Micromosaic
1970	The First 256-Bit Static RAM, page 24   The 4100
1970	The First 1,024-Bit (1K) Dynamic RAM, page 26   The 1103
1970	A New Method of Sensing Images, page 28   The First 8-bit Charge-Coupled Device
1971	The First Microprocessor, page 30   The 4004
1971	A Piece of Electronic Magic, page 32   The First Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory, the 1702
1972	The First 8-bit Microprocessor, page 34   The 8008
1974	The First General-Purpose Microprocessor, page 36   The 8-bit 8080
1974	The Most Widely Used Computer on a Chip, page 38   The TMS 1000
1974	The First 16-Bit Microprocessor, page 40   PACE
1974	The Most Widely Used Digital-to-Analog Converter, page 42   The DAC-08
1975	A Popular Personal Computer Microprocessor, page 44   The 6502
1975	The Microprocessor Decentralized, page 46   A Bit-Slice Processor, the 2901
1976	One of the Most Popular 8-bit Microprocessors, page 48   The Z-80
1976	One of the Most Successful 16K Dynamic RAMs, page 50   The 4116
1977	The First Telephone Coder-Decoder on a Chip, page 52   The 2910
1977	A Programmable Logic Chip, page 54   The PAL 16L8
1977	An Unexpected Breakthrough, page 56   The First 65,536-Bit (64K) Dynamic RAM
1979	One of the Most Powerful 16-Bit Microprocessors, page 58   The 68000
1980	The Optical Mouse, page 60   A Chip that Detects Motion
1980	Synchronizing the Transfer of Data, page 62   A Dynamic Memory Controller, the AM2964
1980	One of the Most Popular 65,536-Bit (64K) Dynamic RAMs, page 64   The TMS 4164
1981	The Cutting Edge of IC Technology, page 66   The First 294,912-Bit (288K) Dynamic RAM
1981	The Fourth Stage in Microprocessor Development, page 68   A 32-Bit Microprocessor
1982	Another Way to Record Sound, page 70   A Digital Speech Synthesizer, the S3610 LPC-10
1982	A High-Voltage Driver, page 72   The S4535
	The Near Future, page 74   Chips Made Out of Gallium Arsenide
	The Distant Future, page 76   Josephson Junctions
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