Case studies on technology and competitiveness in selected industries

The semiconductor industry is the foundation on which the entire electronics industry is built and lies at the centre of the microelectronics revolution that is transforming the nature of production and consumption throughout the world. Early research into semiconductor technology was undertaken principally with the sponsorship of the Government of the United States of America during the Second World War, in an attempt to find a replacement for the vacuum tube in radar applications, and by Bell Laboratories of AT & T. These efforts resulted in the unveiling in 1947 of the first transistor. The attempt to compact several transistors on the same component yielded the integrated circuit (IC) in 1961.

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