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Article: Amazing Integrated Circuits.
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- Communications News
- Article date:
- September 1, 1984
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A true marvel of the past decade has been the way communications inventors, designers and technicians have used the building blocks of solid-state technology (see story, page 84) to develop integrated circuits which, in turn, have led to the miniaturization (see story, page 114) which has made possible the packaging of communications capabilities in compact, cost-effective devices.
It's been called the mighty midget, the electronic wonder, a miracle of modern American technology . . . perhaps the most significant accomplishment of scientific and engineering ingenuity to date. This phenomenon is the integrated circuit or more commonly know in the electronic ...