Assembling the whole world on a grain of silicon

Abstract

You can do amazing things in microelectronics technology, and you can do them extremely cheaply. The idea of any student with a credit card having the power to design a silicon chip with tens of thousands of transistors on it, and get the prototypes in the mail a few weeks later — to paraphrase a leading American academic's recent comment — is now a reality on at least some US campuses.

Citation

(1987), "Assembling the whole world on a grain of silicon", Assembly Automation, Vol. 7 No. 4, pp. 179-182. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb004224