Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)
Semiconductor complementario de óxido metálico (CMOS)
- Date
- 1963 · confidence high
- Place
- Mountain View, United States
- Credited to
- Frank Wanlass and Chih-Tang Sah (Fairchild Semiconductor)
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
At Fairchild Semiconductor, Wanlass and Sah present the CMOS circuit, which combines complementary transistors so that it consumes almost no power at rest, the basis of nearly all digital chips today.
Wanlass presented the CMOS process at the 1963 International Solid-State Circuits Conference and was granted the patent in 1967.
What it led to
- Low-power microprocessors and memories
- Massive miniaturisation of digital integrated circuits
- Battery-powered portable electronics