Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits

Integrated circuits will lead to such wonders as home computers—or at least terminals connected to a central computer—automatic controls for automobiles, and personal portable communications equipment. The electronic wristwatch needs only a display to be feasible today. But the biggest potential lies in the production of large systems. In telephone communications, integrated circuits in digital filters will separate channels on multiplex equipment. Integrated circuits will also switch telephone circuits and perform data processing

GORDON E. MOORE, LIFE FELLOW, IEEE, PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE, VOL. 86, NO. 1, JANUARY 1998