Semiconductors & Chipmaking · Recorded milestone
CMOS logic
Recorded year1963
Frank Wanlass at Fairchild pairs n- and p-type transistors so circuits draw power only when switching, the basis of nearly all chips.
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- MOSFETRecorded · 1959enables
- Planar processRecorded · 1959enables
Led to
- Field-programmable gate arrayRecorded · 1985enables
- Pure-play chip foundryRecorded · 1987enables
- CMOS image sensorRecorded · 1993enables
- SmartphoneRecorded · 1994requires
- Copper chip wiringRecorded · 1997enables
- High-k metal gate transistorsRecorded · 2007enables
- Neuromorphic computingRecorded · 2014enables
- Qubit chips from standard fabsForecast · ~2034enables
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.