Integrated Circuit Chips, one of the major technologies powering the world of advancement and innovations, primarily made from a chemical substance, Silicon (found abundantly in the earth’s crust), are often abbreviated as Silicon Chips. Silicon Chips are a semiconductor technology that can be found frequently in your everyday lives and surroundings. From the phone or desktop you might be using to read this article, the electric geyser you might use to shower with warm water to the defense mechanism your country might be developing to keep you safe, you can find them improving your quality of life in drastic ways. So, let’s understand how these were introduced and their journey towards their vast applications.

How were they developed?

Before semiconductor technologies (the main mechanism powering Integrated Circuit/Silicon Chips), vacuum tubes were mostly used to power most of the computing applications, which were highly inefficient due to their bulky nature, higher operating voltages, and their unreliable nature. In 1833, Micheal Faraday developed the first semiconductor effect. However, it was not until the mid-20th century, that the innovation blew up with the development of transistors and integrated circuits. The new inventions revolutionized the technology and merged them with the electronics industry which created a surge for microprocessors. Since then, with the advancement in the electronic hardware industry, followed by IoT technologies, electric vehicles, and many more, the need for semiconductor technologies has been ever-increasing and provided an enormous help in the acceleration of ideas.

Brief-Creation Mechanism and Advantages of Integrated Circuits:

Integrated Circuits are mainly constructed with pure Silicon crystals, sliced into thin wafers, and converted into the circuit design which is further used for its applications. Made from Silicon, Integrated Circuits are extremely cheap and relatively lightweight which allows them to be accessible in mobile applications. In addition, due to the semiconductor technology used and their high thermal conducting property, they make Integrated chips highly efficient.

The main producers (in terms of countries) of semiconductor technology are the United States, China, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and many more where their productions also engross a significant portion of their economy and contribute enormously to the development of a country.

Hence, Silicon Chips have been vital in shaping electronic innovations and have served as a tool in the technological expedition from telecommunications to aerospace, making it one of the core positively altering factors for humanity.