Integrated circuit
Integrated circuit
!A microscope image of an integrated circuit [die) used to control LCDs. The pinouts are the dark circles surrounding the integrated circuit.](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/NXPPCF8577CLCDdriverwithI%C2%B2C%28ColourCorrected%29.jpg/250px-NXPPCF8577CLCDdriverwithI%C2%B2C%28ColourCorrected%29.jpg)
Integrated circuit
Very-large-scale integration was made practical by technological advancements in semiconductor device fabrication. Since their origins in the 1960s, the size, speed, and capacity of chips have progressed enormously, driven by technical advances that fit more and more transistors on chips of the same size – a modern chip may have many billions of transistors in an area the size of a human fingernail. These advances, roughly following Moore's law, make the computer chips of today possess millions of times the capacity and thousands of times the speed of the computer chips of the early 1970s.
Terminology
A circuit in which all or some of the circuit elements are inseparably associated and electrically interconnected so that it is considered to be indivisible for the purposes of construction and commerce.
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