Title :
Westinghouse: Microcircuit Pioneer from Molecular Electronics to ICs
Author :
Sack, Edgar A. ; Laws, David A.
Abstract :
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Westinghouse Electric engineers and scientists pursued research and developed many innovations in semiconductor design and manufacturing that found widespread use throughout the industry and later contributed to the important role of ICs in the development of computing.
Keywords :
integrated circuit design; integrated circuit manufacture; molecular electronics; Westinghouse Electric; microcircuit pioneer; molecular electronics; semiconductor design; Companies; History; Semiconductor device manufacture; Henkels; Herwald; Husher; Sack; Strull; Westinghouse; history of computing; integrated circuit; molecular electronics; silicon; von Hippel;
Journal_Title :
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MAHC.2012.15
