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The last 40 years: the scalability issue<br />
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• The Si BJT pioneers ( Fairchild, Philips, TI ,etc.;) of<br />
the 60’s all failed<br />
• Exotic technologies like Josephson junctions were<br />
discontinued because the memory cell was not<br />
scalable ( IBM)<br />
• In the early 70’s start-ups like INTEL understood the<br />
unique scalability of Si-CMOS<br />
• In the 80’s, Silicon advances were dictating the<br />
system roadmaps<br />
• III/V technologies pioneered by IBM Zurich in the late<br />
60’s had no applications except for Space and<br />
Defense<br />
18/06/2010<br />
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