News Academy of Engineering Sciences A.M. Prokhorov Annotation << Back MICROELECTRONICS (THE STORY ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE GREATEST TECHNOLOGIES OF THE XX CENTURY, RADICALLY CHANGE THE LIFE OF MANKIND) Yu.R. NOSOV Story of the birth of microelectronics is presented as a set of consecutive events, relatively independent of each other and form an interconnected chain from the transistor to the microprocessor chip. Details are given of creating the deciding structural elements of the microchip. Discusses distant perspective. Tells about the main characters of the microelectronics history. Keywords: microelectronics; microchip; transistor; MOS-structure; microprocessor; planar technology; W. Shockley; R. Noyce; J. Kilby; fi rms: Bell; Fairchild; Texas Instruments; Intel. Contacts: E-mail: nosov-diod@yandex.ru Pp. 25-46.