...to envisage electronic equipment in a solid block with no connecting wires. The block may consist of layers of insulating, conducting, rectifying and amplifying...directly by cutting out areas of the various layers." (quoted in Wolff, 1976) Within a few years, work was begun both in England and in the United States...

...semiconductors generally, it seems now possible to envisage electronic equipment in a solid block with no layers of insulating, conducting, rectifying and amplifying...directly by cutting out areas of the various layers. Although the precise effect of Dummer's prediction on subsequent US research is difficult to trace,...

...semiconductors generally, it seems now possible to envisage electronic equipment in a solid block with no layers of insulating, conducting, rectifying and amplifying...directly by cutting out areas of the various layers. Although the precise effect of Hummer's prediction on subsequent US research is difficult to trace,...

...iemiconductor! generally, it seem) now potiible to enviuge electronic equipment in a solid block with no layers of insulating, conducting, rectifying and amplifying...directly by cutting out areas of the various layers. Although the precise effect of Dummer's prediction on subsequent US research is difficult to trace,...

...transistor as 'electronic equipment in a solid block with no connecting wires. The block may consist of layers of insulating, conducting, rectifying and amplifying...connected directly by cutting out areas of the various layers'.26 That is a fair, if hypothetical, description of an integrated circuit at a time when industry...

...to envisage electronic equipment in a solid block with no connecting wires. The block may consist of layers of insulating, conducting, rectifying, and...directly by cutting out areas of the various layers. Five years later Dummer convinced his bosses to award a contract to a British company to pursue this...

...to envisage electronic equipment in a solid block with no connecting wires. The block may consist of layers of insulating, conducting, rectifying and amplifying...directly by cutting out areas of the various layers . " The RRE gave a contract to a British manufucturer to realize the idea. They attempted to build...

...to envisage electronic equipment in a solid block with no connecting wires. The block may consist of layers of insulating, conducting, rectifying and amplifying...directly by cutting out areas of the various layers. This is an amazingly accurate vision of a modern integrated circuit. In 1952, however, there were still...

...to envisage electronic equipment in a solid block with no connecting wires. The block may consist of layers of insulating, conducting, rectifying and amplifying...materials, the electrical functions being connected by cutting out areas of the various layers" . In the summer of 1957, Dummer described at an International...