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    During the mid-1920s, several inventors attempted to control current in solid-state diodes and convert them into triodes, but success had to wait until after WWII when improvements were made in fabricating and understanding semiconductors. With the invention of transistors at Bell Labs in 1947, electronics shifted from vacuum tubes to solid-state devices. As circuit complexity grew in the 1950s, one problem was the size of circuits which impacted speed if components were too large or wires too long. In 1958, Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments introduced the idea of integrating all components and connections onto a single semiconductor block, called an integrated circuit, allowing for smaller, faster, and more automated manufacturing. This led to developments in integration

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    During the mid-1920s, several inventors attempted to control current in solid-state diodes and convert them into triodes, but success had to wait until after WWII when improvements were made in fabricating and understanding semiconductors. With the invention of transistors at Bell Labs in 1947, electronics shifted from vacuum tubes to solid-state devices. As circuit complexity grew in the 1950s, one problem was the size of circuits which impacted speed if components were too large or wires too long. In 1958, Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments introduced the idea of integrating all components and connections onto a single semiconductor block, called an integrated circuit, allowing for smaller, faster, and more automated manufacturing. This led to developments in integration

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    During the mid-1920s, several inventors attempted to control current in solid-state diodes and convert them into triodes, but success had to wait until after WWII when improvements were made in fabricating and understanding semiconductors. With the invention of transistors at Bell Labs in 1947, electronics shifted from vacuum tubes to solid-state devices. As circuit complexity grew in the 1950s, one problem was the size of circuits which impacted speed if components were too large or wires too long. In 1958, Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments introduced the idea of integrating all components and connections onto a single semiconductor block, called an integrated circuit, allowing for smaller, faster, and more automated manufacturing. This led to developments in integration

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    History of VLSI

    During the mid-1920s, several inventors attempted devices that were intended to control current
    in solid-state diodes and convert them into triodes. Success had to wait until after WWII, during
    which the attempt to improve silicon and germanium crystals for use as radar detectors led to
    improvements in fabrication and in the understanding of quantum mechanical states of carriers in
    semiconductors. Then scientists who had been diverted to radar development returned to solidstate device development. With the invention of transistors at Bell Labs in 1947, the field of
    electronics shifted from vacuum tubes to solid-state devices.
    With the small and effective transistor at their hands, electrical engineers of the 1950s saw the
    possibilities of constructing far more advanced circuits. As the complexity of circuits grew,
    problems arose.[1]
    One problem was the size of the circuit. A complex circuit, like a computer, was dependent on
    speed. If the components of the computer were too large or the wires interconnecting them too
    long, the electric signals couldn't travel fast enough through the circuit, thus making the computer
    too slow to be effective.[1]
    Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments found a solution to this problem in 1958. Kilby's idea was to
    make all the components and the chip out of the same block (monolith) of semiconductor
    material. Kilby presented his idea to his superiors, and was allowed to build a test version of his
    circuit. In September 1958, he had his first integrated circuit ready.[1] Although the first integrated
    circuit was crude and had some problems, the idea was groundbreaking. By making all the parts
    out of the same block of material and adding the metal needed to connect them as a layer on top
    of it, there was no need for discrete components. No more wires and components had to be
    assembled manually. The circuits could be made smaller, and the manufacturing process could
    be automated. From here, the idea of integrating all components on a single silicon wafer came
    into existence, which led to development in small-scale integration (SSI) in the early 1960s,
    medium-scale integration (MSI) in the late 1960s, and then large-scale integration (LSI) as well
    as VLSI in the 1970s and 1980s, with tens of thousands of transistors on a single chip (later
    hundreds of thousands, then millions, and now billions (10 9)).

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