• DocumentCode
    1403139
  • Title

    Making Micrologic: The Development of the Planar IC at Fairchild Semiconductor, 1957–1963

  • Author

    Laws, David A. ; Riordan, Michael

  • Author_Institution
    Comput. History Museum, Mountain View, CA, USA
  • Volume
    34
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    20
  • Lastpage
    36
  • Abstract
    The modern integrated circuit evolved from developments at Fairchild Semiconductor during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Using information from laboratory notebooks, internal company memoranda, oral histories, and personal communications, this article reconstructs and analyzes the activities of the Fairchild development team, including the company´s efforts to improve and market ICs during the early 1960s.
  • Keywords
    integrated circuit manufacture; Fairchild development team; Fairchild semiconductor; Micrologic; internal company memoranda; laboratory notebooks; modern integrated circuit; oral history; personal communications; planar IC; History; Integrated circuits; P-n junctions; Planar arrays; Semiconductor devices; Transistors; Fairchild; Hass; Hoerni; Kattner; Last; Micrologic; Moore; Norman; Noyce; history of computing; integrated circuit; planar;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1058-6180
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MAHC.2011.87
  • Filename
    6109204
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1403139