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To the Digital Age

Research Labs, Start-up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology

Ross Knox Bassett (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

440 Seiten

2002
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-6809-2 (ISBN)

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The metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor is the fundamental element of digital electronics. The tens of millions of transistors in a typical home-in personal computers, automobiles, appliances, and toys-are almost all derive from MOS transistors. To the Digital Age examines for the first time the history of this remarkable device, which overthrew the previously dominant bipolar transistor and made digital electronics ubiquitous. Combining technological with corporate history, To the Digital Age examines the breakthroughs of individual innovators as well as the research and development power (and problems) of large companies such as IBM, Intel, and Fairchild. Bassett discusses how the MOS transistor was invented but spurned at Bell Labs, and then how, in the early 1960s, spurred on by the possibilities of integrated circuits, RCA, Fairchild, and IBM all launched substantial MOS R & D programs. The development of the MOS transistor involved an industry-wide effort, and Bassett emphasizes how communication among researchers from different firms played a critical role in advancing the new technology.
Bassett sheds substantial new light on the development of the integrated circuit, Moore's Law, the success of Silicon Valley start-ups as compared to vertically integrated East Coast firms, the development of the microprocessor, and IBM's multi-billion-dollar losses in the early 1990s. To the Digital Age offers a captivating account of the intricate R & D process behind a technological device that transformed modern society.

Ross Knox Bassett is an associate professor of history at North Carolina State University.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. How a Bad Idea Became Good (to Some): The Emergence of the MOS Transistor, 1945-1963
2. Back from the Frontier: IBM Research and the Formation of the LSI Program, 1951-1965
3. Development at Research: The Research Phase of IBM's MOS Program, 1963-1967
4. MOS in a Bipolar Company: Fairchild and the MOS Transistor, 1963-1968
5. It Takes an Industry: The MOS Community
6. The End of Research: Intel and the MOS Transistor, 1968-1975
7. IBM: MOS and the Visible Hand, 1967-1975
8. The Logic of MOS: Intel and the Microprocessor, 1968-1975
Conclusion/ Epilogue
Appendix 1: Organizational Charts
Appendix 2: Sources for Tables
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.6.2002
Reihe/Serie	Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
Zusatzinfo	26 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Baltimore, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	658 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
ISBN-10	0-8018-6809-2 / 0801868092
ISBN-13	978-0-8018-6809-2 / 9780801868092
Zustand	Neuware