Five Generations of IC Technology
What is Integrated Circuit & Silicon Wafer? An electronic circuit constructed on a silicon wafer is known as an integrated circuit (IC). It accomplishes the same duties as a bigger discrete-component circuit. Its main advantage is that hundreds or thousands of integrated circuits may be packed into a single wafer. At the same time, a batch of around a hundred wafers is made. As a result, it is substantially less expensive than traditional discrete-component circuits. It is also substantially smaller in size. Thousands, if not billions, of components can be found in a single integrated circuit. AMD's Ryzen CPU, for example, has 19 billion transistors. An integrated circuit (IC) , also known as a microelectronic circuit, microchip, or chip, is a single-unit electronic assembly made up of miniaturised active devices (such as transistors and diodes) and passive devices (such as capacitors and resistors) and their interconnections on a thin semiconductor substrate ...