Title :
Making Micrologic: The Development of the Planar IC at Fairchild Semiconductor, 1957–1963
Author :
Laws, David A. ; Riordan, Michael
Author_Institution :
Comput. History Museum, Mountain View, CA, USA
Abstract :
The modern integrated circuit evolved from developments at Fairchild Semiconductor during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Using information from laboratory notebooks, internal company memoranda, oral histories, and personal communications, this article reconstructs and analyzes the activities of the Fairchild development team, including the company´s efforts to improve and market ICs during the early 1960s.
Keywords :
integrated circuit manufacture; Fairchild development team; Fairchild semiconductor; Micrologic; internal company memoranda; laboratory notebooks; modern integrated circuit; oral history; personal communications; planar IC; History; Integrated circuits; P-n junctions; Planar arrays; Semiconductor devices; Transistors; Fairchild; Hass; Hoerni; Kattner; Last; Micrologic; Moore; Norman; Noyce; history of computing; integrated circuit; planar;
Journal_Title :
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MAHC.2011.87
