3 Semiconductor Industry and More than Moore
As mentioned in the Preface, this book adopts a top-down approach. In Chapter 1, we discussed the power electronics system, which is the system-level application of power devices (mostly discrete). Power management ICs are presented in Chapter 2. Power management ICs are IC-level application of power devices (mostly integrated). Now we step further down the ladder to explore the foundation of the power management IC: the semiconductor industry.
3.1 Semiconductor Industry
On July 1, 1948, the New York Times made an announcement about a new invention, “a device called a transistor, which has several applications in radio where a vacuum tube ordinarily is employed” [37]; the inventors did not yet know ...
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