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- Condition
- Like New
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- “light smudge on front endpaper, very light wear”
- ISBN
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- Book Title
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801868092
ISBN-13
9780801868092
eBay Product ID (ePID)
144746081
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
440 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
To the Digital Age : Research Labs, Start-Up Companies, and the Rise of Mos Technology
Publication Year
2002
Subject
United States / 20th Century, Electronics / Semiconductors, History, Electronics / General, Information Technology
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Computers, Technology & Engineering, History
Series
Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
23.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2001-001861
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"Bassett's book is an exciting, fast-moving, and entertaining look at the early days of the MOS device development, bringing to light the remarkable interplay of people and companies that made it a dominant electronic technology." -- SSCS Quarterly, "An excellent book... Presents the definitive history of how the transistor was transformed from an analog into a truly digital device." -- IEEE Spectrum, "Bassett's account of the development of MOS has important implications for understanding the relationships among science, commerce, new product development, and research and development."--Andrew Weiss, Enterprise and Society, Bassett's book is an exciting, fast-moving, and entertaining look at the early days of the MOS device development, bringing to light the remarkable interplay of people and companies that made it a dominant electronic technology., An excellent book... Presents the definitive history of how the transistor was transformed from an analog into a truly digital device., ""Bassett's account of the development of MOS has important implications for understanding the relationships among science, commerce, new product development, and research and development."", Bassett's account of the development of MOS has important implications for understanding the relationships among science, commerce, new product development, and research and development., "An excellent book... To the Digital Age presents the definitive history of how the transistor was transformed from an analog into a truly digital device." -- IEEE Spectrum, "[A]n excellent book... To the Digital Age presents the definitive history of how the transistor was transformed from an analog into a truly digital device."--Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, "Bassett's account of the development of MOS has important implications for understanding the relationships among science, commerce, new product development, and research and development." -- Enterprise and Society
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
621.39/732/09
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. How a Bad Idea Became Good (to Some): The Emergence of the MOS Transistor, 1945-1963 2. Back from the Frontier: IBM Research and the Formation of the LSI Program, 1951-1965 3. Development at Research: The Research Phase of IBM's MOS Program, 1963-1967 4. MOS in a Bipolar Company: Fairchild and the MOS Transistor, 1963-1968 5. It Takes an Industry: The MOS Community 6. The End of Research: Intel and the MOS Transistor, 1968-1975 7. IBM: MOS and the Visible Hand, 1967-1975 8. The Logic of MOS: Intel and the Microprocessor, 1968-1975 Conclusion/ Epilogue Appendix 1: Organizational Charts Appendix 2: Sources for Tables Notes Essay on Sources Index
Synopsis
The metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor is the fundamental element of digital electronics. The tens of millions of transistors in the home of a typical American-in personal computers, automobiles, appliances, and toys-are almost all MOS transistors. To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology is ......, The metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor is the fundamental element of digital electronics. The tens of millions of transistors in the home of a typical American-in personal computers, automobiles, appliances, and toys-are almost all MOS transistors. To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology is the first book devoted to the history of the MOS transistor, which overthrew the previously dominant bipolar transistor and made digital electronics ubiquitous. Combining technological with corporate history, To the Digital Age examines the breakthroughs of individual innovators as well as the research and development power (and problems) of companies such as IBM, Intel, and Fairchild. Bassett discusses how the MOS transistor was invented but spurned at Bell Labs, and then how, in the early 1960s, spurred on by the possibilities of integrated circuits, RCA, Fairchild, and IBM all launched substantial MOS RandD programs. The development of the MOS transistor involved an industry-wide effort, and Bassett emphasizes how communication among researchers from different firms played a critical role in advancing the new technology. Bassett sheds substantial new light on the development of the integrated circuit, Moore's Law, the success of Silicon Valley start-ups as compared to vertically integrated East Coast firms, the development of the microprocessor, and IBM's multi-billion-dollar losses in the early 1990s. To the Digital Age offers a captivating account of the intricate RandD process behind a technological device that transformed modern society., The metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor is the fundamental element of digital electronics. The tens of millions of transistors in a typical home--in personal computers, automobiles, appliances, and toys--are almost all derive from MOS transistors. To the Digital Age examines for the first time the history of this remarkable device, which overthrew the previously dominant bipolar transistor and made digital electronics ubiquitous. Combining technological with corporate history, To the Digital Age examines the breakthroughs of individual innovators as well as the research and development power (and problems) of large companies such as IBM, Intel, and Fairchild. Bassett discusses how the MOS transistor was invented but spurned at Bell Labs, and then how, in the early 1960s, spurred on by the possibilities of integrated circuits, RCA, Fairchild, and IBM all launched substantial MOS R & D programs. The development of the MOS transistor involved an industry-wide effort, and Bassett emphasizes how communication among researchers from different firms played a critical role in advancing the new technology. Bassett sheds substantial new light on the development of the integrated circuit, Moore's Law, the success of Silicon Valley start-ups as compared to vertically integrated East Coast firms, the development of the microprocessor, and IBM's multi-billion-dollar losses in the early 1990s. To the Digital Age offers a captivating account of the intricate R & D process behind a technological device that transformed modern society.
LC Classification Number
TK7871.99.M44 B373
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