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Saturday 10 March 2012

Chapter # 7 ( World's First IC Chip )

IC means Integrated Circuit (Chip), was invented by an American Engineer of Texas city in 1959. IC is a Semi-conductor and it contains many transistors at a time in it which are combined without wires and that is the ancestor of the modern integrated circuit.

The World's first IC Circuit only contains 6 transistors in it but, later on these transistors were being increased with advanced features of that IC circuit and hence, you can see that in today's computers there are about five and half million transistors in a single computer and in some other computers, the number of transistors are 32 Million with a extra chip attached in mother boards.

In 1969, a Kilo Bit chip was introduced fir the purpose of memory which was the biggest chip of that times. You can simply understand that chip and its bit process by looking at follow;

1 Kilo Bit = 1024 Bit
1 Byte = 8 Bit

So, this chip can store 128 Byte data only, and that was enough for highs speed computers as compared to today's modern ones. In those days. Microsoft Intel Corporation Company made 12 different functions chips for calculators of Japan's Company and then they converted all thos

Those chips were only used for calculators in those times, and could usee 12 in the form of a single chip that was controlled by some specific Programme which could change functions of those chips easily.
This could read guild lines from memory which was controlled by a button on calculator. Hence, its different functions and working on a calculators and reading memories controlled by buttons raised the need of that chip (IC-Integrated Circuit) for computers. So, the scientist started to work on that project. Soon after, they succeeded in that purpose and invented World's First Miro processor
   

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