Milestone in Electronics4
Milestone in Electronics4
Milestone in Electronics4
Year Event
1895 Marconi first radio transmission
1904 Fleming Valve (Diode Vacuum Tube)
1906 De Forest – Triode vacuum tube (Audion) – Age of
electronics begins
1925 TV demonstrated
1925 Lilienfeld files patent application on the field-effect device
Electronics
1906 Lee de Forest developed the
triode vacuum tube (Audion)
Age of electronics begins.
Electronics
Bipolar transistor invented
by Bardeen, Brattain & Shockley
at Bell Laboratories in 1947.
Electronics
Point contact transistor
1947
Electronics
Microwatt bipolar
junction transistor
1951
Electronics
First planar BJT transistor (Fairchild 1959)
Electronics
First integrated circuit (TI, 1958)
Electronics
Schematics of the first IC
Electronics
1962: Resistor-
transistor logic (TTL)
First IC with wide
acceptance in the
commercial market
Electronics
9
Moore´s law governs 10
the silicon revolution Microprocessor
10
8 Memory
16M
7
10
DEC Alpha
1M 80486
6 68040
10 80860
250K
68030
80386
64K 68020
5 Bellmac 80286
10 32A
68000
16K
8086
4K
4 8048
10
8085
1K 8080
8008 Source: Intel Corp.
4004
3
10
1970 1980 1990 2000
Level of integration vs. Time, for memory chips and logic chips.
Electronics
From integrated circuits to integrated systems
Ref.: J. M. Younse, “Mirrors on a chip”, Spectrum IEEE, vol. 30, no. II, pp. 27-
Electronics 31, Nov. 1993.
International technology roadmap
for semiconductors (1999)
Year 2002 2005 2008 2011 2014 2017 2020 2023 2026
130 100 70 50 35 25 18 13 10
Technology nm nm nm nm nm nm nm nm nm
Electronics
References
Electronics