Computers: Projecting VLSI's impact on microprocessors: Single-chip microcomputers with 1 million bits of information, English-language programming, and canned software are seen ahead

One million devices on a single silicon chip by 1985? RAMS of 1024 kbits with prices as low as 0.002 cent per bit? Both developments will be possible in the next decade with a new generation of very-large-scale integrated circuits. Microprocessors and related components will be built on these ICS with new circuit-design techniques and advanced fabrication processes. Among the likely products are single-chip microcomputers with as much as 256 kbits of electrically erasable memory.