A technology commentary - The 30th anniversary of the digest

The yearv1987, marks the 40th year of the transistor and the 30th year that the ISSCC Digest of Technical Papers has celebrated the application of semiconductor science. This paper attempts to give perspective to the field, moving backward in time to the first decade of the ISSCC DIGEST, that period extending from 1958 to 1967. The DIGEST will be our lamp, illuminating that vital second decade following the invention of the transistor. It was one of the seminal importance as transistor technology progressed from discrete devices to Large Scale Integration.