The role of ICs in the creation of a connected world and the importance of product quality

Human beings being social have had a need to communicate. The modern chapter in enabling large scale communication has been aided by intelligence in the transport, distribution, protection, traffic management, decoding, analyzing and displaying of communication content. The intelligence has been embedded in an explosive confluence of software, systems and integrated circuits. This has resulted in the most amazing transformation of the way we live our lives, work, and engage in all other necessary and capricious activity. It has also created a huge economic footprint on the Gross Domestic Product of the United States of America. With a massive transformation that has occurred in such a short time, this throbbing network across the planet has to operate reliably because of the precious payload it carries.