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Metals, insulators, and semiconductors
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Band theory
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Doped semiconductors: p-type and n-type
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Transistors
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Point-contact and junction transistors
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Mesa and planar transistors
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Integrated circuits
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MOSFET transistors and CMOS technology
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Random access memory: DRAM, SRAM, and ROM
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Moore's law
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Microprocessors
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Dennard scaling
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Fabrication facilities and silicon foundries
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Multicore chips
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Parallel computing
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Dark silicon
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A cartoon from Gordon Moore's original 1965 paper on Moore's law. Remarkably, Moore envisaged
home computers being sold as a commodity long before the microprocessor gave birth to the personal
computer (see next chapter).
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