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| Paper IPM / Cognitive Sciences / 13336 |
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lmost a decade after the invention of the
first semiconductor transistor in 1948, it
took the revolutionary technology almost
a decade to evolve from producing single
devices to integrating only a few transistors
as the first integrated circuit (IC) in 1958. Since then,
integrated circuits have been in continuous progress for
more than half a century as predicted by the well-known
Mooreâs law. While integrated circuits still continue their
progress with the same exponential pace, it is almost a
decade that a new branch of science and technology has
emerged, known as integrated microsystems. This can
be taken as the natural technological evolution from individual
circuit chips and non-circuit modules to complete
systems with small physical dimensions and light
weight. Integrated microsystems have opened windows
of hope to providing efficient solutions to some of the
problems that have not been resolvable by any other
means whatsoever.
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