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Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Technology

The MOS fabrication technique can put more than 10,000 electronic components on a silicon "chip" only a few millimeters across. Its economic impact can be seen in such devices as pocket calculators

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 229 Issue 2This article was originally published with the title “Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Technology” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 229 No. 2 (), p. 48
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0873-48