A Brief History 1958: First integrated circuit – Flip-flop using two transistors – Built by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments 2010 – Intel Core i7 µprocessor • billion transistors – 64 Gb Flash memory • 16 billion transistors 53% compound annual growth rate over 50 years – No other technology has grown so fast so long Driven by miniaturization of transistors – Smaller is cheaper, faster, lower in power! – Revolutionary effects on society .Annual Sales 1019 transistors manufactured in 2008 – 1 billion for every human on the planet.
