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All that Glitters isn’t Silicon

Or “Steel and Aluminum Re-Visited”

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At the 1974 International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), Marty Lepselter gave an invited talk under the title “Integrated circuits — The New Steel” [1]. His message was that the emerging integrated circuit technology was likely to play the same central role in the industrial revolution of the late-20th century that steel played in the great industrial revolution of the early-19th century.

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  1. Lepselter, M. (1974) Integrated Circuits—The New Steel, IEDM Digest.

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Kroemer, H. (1996). All that Glitters isn’t Silicon. In: Luryi, S., Xu, J., Zaslavsky, A. (eds) Future Trends in Microelectronics. NATO ASI Series, vol 323. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1746-0_1

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