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C o r e S e m i c on d u ct or T e ch n ologie s
1876
1897
1900

Telephone invented by Graham Bell
Cathode ray tube invented by Karl Ferdinand Braun

1876
1897
1900

Telegraph, telephone,wireless communication

Two-electrode vacuum tube invented by John Fleming
Three-electrode vacuum tube invented by Lee De Forest

1910

1920

Wireless communication
technology

Television receiver with a cathode ray tube devisedby Russian scientist Boris Rosing

Vacuum tube
technology
1910

Semiconductor prehistory:
Development of electronic circuitand control technology

Radio broadcasting

1920

First radio station starts broadcasting

TV broadcastingRadio broadcasting starts in the UK
Radio broadcasting starts in Japan
1930

World s ﬁrst successful reception of images using a cathode ray tube
Successful TV transmission experiment between New York and Washington DC
Experimental TV broadcasting starts

Demand fordurable solid state devices
1940

1950

ComputerWorlds ﬁrst regular TV broadcasting starts
in the UK (BBC)Photovoltaic effect in silicon discovered by Russell Ohl (at Bell Labs)
P- and n-type conduction discovered by Jack Scaff
Technique to manufacture p- and n-type semiconductors bydoping impurities discovered by Henry Theuerer and Jack Scaff
Point-contact transistor discovered by Walter Brattain and John Bardeen
Junction transistor theory published by William Shockley

Bell Labs licenses transistor technology
Field-effect transistor theory published by William Shockley

1970

Esaki diode invented by Leo Esaki
Demonstration of IC by Texas Instruments (TI)
Fairchild and TI announce IC

First semiconductor memory DRAM
prototyped at IBM
CCD invented at Bell LabsTransistortechnology

Japan s ﬁrst transistor radio TR-55
released by Sony1980

1990

First electronic calculator
ANITA Mk VIII introduced
IC-based calculator
CS-31A released by Sharp
LSI-based calculator
QT-80 released by Sharp

Video game

Intel ships world s ﬁrst DRAM Intel 1103 (1 kbit)
World s ﬁrst microprocessor Intel 4004 announcedIntel 8086 (16-bit) announcedIntel 80286 announcedIntel 80386 (32-bit) announced

Flash memory invented
by Fujio Masuoka

Intel 80486 announced

Successful prototyping of
16 Mb DRAM by NTT

Cell Broadband Engine announced

2010

Digital mobile phoneservice starts
PHS service starts
i-mode service starts

Smartphones
Apple announces
the iPhoneAndroid phonesannounced

Google Glassannounced

D-Wave Systems delivers a quantum computer productApple:Apple Watchreleased

Ethernet announced

1980
TRON project inaugurated by Ken Sakamura
1990
WWW speciﬁcation released
Mosaic browser released
IIJ starts network connection service in Japan

Mobile phone
Smartphone
Wearable device

Windows 95 announced

Panasonic 3DO REAL released
Sega Saturn released
SCE PlayStation released
Nintendo 64 released
SCE PlayStation 2 released
SCE PSP released
Nintendo DS released
SCE PlayStation 3 released

SCE PlayStation 4 released

Virtual Reality（VR）
Augmentted Reality（AR）

Nintendo Switch released

Method for enabling massive optical quantum computing
invented by Akira Furusawa at the University of Tokyo

Compound semiconductor
Nanoscale processing
High-k metal gate
Quantum mechanics
Power semiconductor
New semiconductor structures(3D NAND, FinFET)

Cray-1 announced

Nintendo Super Famicom released

Mobile phone

Digital entertainment
Network game

Netscape Navigator announced
Java announced
Earth Simulator
starts operations

One-seg
servicestarts inJapanDigital
switchoverof terrestrial
TV in JapanApple releases iPad1970

PDP-11 released by DEC

IBM PC released
NEC PC-8801, PC-6001 announcedIBM PC compatible computer released
by Compaq
Macintosh announced

Atari shock (video game crash)
Nintendo Family Computer released
Sega Mega Drive released
Nintendo Game Boy released

Wearable devices

NVIDIA GeForce GT1030 announced

ARPANET introduced

Xerox Alto completed
Altair 8800 computer kit announced
NEC TK-80 introduced
Microcomputer magazine I/O inaugurated
First West Coast Computer Faire held
Apple II released by Apple Computer
ASCII magazine inaugurated

Video game Space Invadersannounced

Into Nanotechnology Age2017Internet
Personal computer

Microprocessortechnology

Research in quantum bits, quantum algorithms,
and quantum optics makes progress

2014

PDP-5 released by DEC
IBM System 360 announced

Video game Pong announcedIntel Pentium announced
Blue LED invented by Shuji Nakamura

2000

First transistorized computer TRADIC introduced
Eiichi Goto at the University of Tokyo invents parametron logic circuit element
First commercial-use transistor computer IBM 608 announced
Japan s ﬁrst electronic computer FUJIC introduced
Last vacuum tube computer IBM 709 released
IBM 7070, 7090, CDC 1604
1960
Computer
PDP-1 released by DEC
technology

Electronic calculator

Semiconductor
memoryZ80 announced by Masatoshi Shima

1950
First commercial-use computer UNIVAC I introducedIntel ships 64-bit
bipolar semiconductor
memory chips

Intel 8080 announced
Motorola 6800 announced

1940

World s ﬁrst general-purpose computer ENIAC completed
NHK starts experimental TV
broadcasting in JapanIC technology

Prototyping of MOSFET at Bell Labs
Planar IC patent granted

Atanasoff‒Berry computer (ABC) invented
Bell Labs Model 1 relay computer introduced
Codebreaking computer Colossus introduced

Solar cell invented
Gas diffusion method invented by Calvin Fuller

1960

193020002010

K computer starts operations

Wireless communication
Personal 3D printer released

AI (artiﬁcial intelligence)
Deep learning

NHK starts
4K and 8K
test broadcasting

Personal computer
TabletEdge computing device

Autonomous driving becomescommercially available
Commercial drone released

Next-generation supercomputer
Data centerIndustrial robot

2014
Remote medical treatment(virtual care)
NTT successfully conducts 5G trials
in outside environment
Four Japanese GPS Michibiki satellites
become operational
2017

Ubiquitous network
Cloud computing
Space development