Alcune
tappe dell’elettronica
1940 - Russel Ohl
at Bell Labs develops the PN junction
1945 - The first
transistor is invented by Bardeen and Brattain
1951 - William
Shockley developed the junction transistor
1952 - Single
crystal silicon is fabricated
1952 - Integrated
Circuit concept published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer
1954 - Texas
Instruments announced the first commercial silicon transistor
1954 - Bell Labs
developed the Oxide masking process
1954 - First
Transistor Radios produced
1955 - Bell Labs fabricated
the first field effect transistor
1958 - Integrated
circuit invented
1959 - Planar
technology invented
1960 - Epitaxial
deposition developed
1960 - Kahng at
Bell Labs fabricates the first MOSFET
1961 - Fairchild
and Texas Instruments both introduce commercial ICs
1962 -
Transistor-Transistor Logic invented
1963 - Frank
Wanlass at Fairchild Semic. originated and published the idea of CMOS
1965 - Gordon
Moore (Fairchild Semic.) wrote observations became known as Moore's law
1966 - IBM
introduced a 16-bit bipolar memory chip
1967 - Kahng and
Sze of Bell labs disclosed the use of floating gate devices
1968 - IBM
introduced a 64-bit bipolar array chip as a high speed memory buffer
1969 - BiCMOS
invented
1970 - IBM
replaces magnetic memory with transistor based memory
1971 - UVEPROM
invented
1971 -
Microprocessor invented
1971 - The 4004
the first 4-bit microprocessor was in production by Intel
1972 - Digital
Signal Processor invented
1972 - Intel
produce 8008 the 8 bit successor to the 4004
1974 - Intel
produce 8080 microprocessor
1976 - 16Kbit DRAM
introduced
1978 - The Intel
8088 microprocessor was selected by IBM for the IBM PC
1979 - 64Kbit DRAM
introduced
1980 - Modern DSP
commercially available
1980 - IBM selects
Intel 8088 microprocessor for the PC
1982 - 256Kbit
DRAM was produced on a dual polysilicon NMOS process
1982 - Intel 80286
microprocessor was produced
1983 - Intel
develops a 1Mbit CMOS DRAM, the 1st CMOS DRAM
1983 - 16Kbit
EEPROMs introduced based on the floating gate and MNOS
1984 - Flash
memory invented
1985 - Toshiba
introduces a 256Kbit flash memory chip
1985 - The 80386
was the first 32 bit microprocessor from Intel
1989 - The 80486
was the first microprocessor from Intel with a coprocessor on chip
1993 - Intel
Pentium microprocessor was produced
1997 - Intel
Pentium II microprocessor was produced
1999 - Intel
Pentium III microprocessor was produced