IC Knowledge - History of the Integrated Circuit

Select the period you are interested in:

1940s - setting the stage - the initial inventions that made integrated circuits possible.
1950s - invention - the invention of the integrated circuit.
1960s - product and technology advances - MOS, CMOS and BiCMOS, Moore's law.
1970s - new products to drive the market - EPROM, DSP, DRAMs and Microprocessors, MOS scaling.
1980s - technology advances and new products - EEPROM and Flash
1990s - technology marches on - further refinements in technology.
2000s - what will the new decade bring? - as the decade unfolds we will continue to update this section.
References - references for all of the sections.

Other resources - these are other sites that are of historical interest:

Stanford's Silicon Genisis - interviews with pioneers of the semiconductor industry.
Smithsonian The Chip Collection - the Smithsonian Institutes on-line collection.