Milestone
SK hynix starts mass-producing HBM3E
SK hynix said it was the first in the industry to start mass-producing HBM3E, high-bandwidth memory that sits next to AI chips.
Source SK hynix Newsroom
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From 1947, when the transistor was first demonstrated, to today, when the chips and memory that run AI are at the center of the industry.
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2024
Release
NVIDIA announces Blackwell
NVIDIA announced Blackwell, the GPU generation after the H100.
Source NVIDIA Newsroom
2022
Milestone
Fusion yields more energy than was put in
At the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in the United States, fusion produced more energy than the laser energy fired at the fuel. It was still far less than the electricity the whole facility used.
Policy
The US CHIPS Act is signed
The United States passed a law that supports building factories and doing research so that more chips are made inside the country.
Milestone
Samsung Electronics starts 3 nm mass production
Samsung Electronics was the first to start mass-producing 3 nm chips using the GAA structure, which wraps the channel that current flows through on all sides.
Source Samsung Newsroom
Release
NVIDIA announces the H100
NVIDIA announced the H100, a data center GPU designed for AI training. It became the chip that held up the generative AI boom.
Source NVIDIA Newsroom
2013
Milestone
3D NAND enters mass production for the first time
Samsung Electronics was the first to mass-produce 3D NAND (V-NAND), which stacks storage cells upward.
Source Wikipedia — Flash memory
2007
Release
NVIDIA releases CUDA
A development tool appeared that lets a graphics chip (GPU) do general calculations. It later became the base for the move of AI training to GPUs.
Source Wikipedia — CUDA
1987
Milestone
TSMC is founded, the start of the foundry
TSMC, the world's first company dedicated to making chips designed by others, was founded in Taiwan.
Source Wikipedia — TSMC
1983
Milestone
Samsung Electronics develops a 64K DRAM
Samsung Electronics developed a 64K DRAM, the third company in the world after the US and Japan, and entered the memory chip industry.
1971
Release
Intel 4004 is the first commercial microprocessor
A product that put a computer's brain, the processing unit, on a single chip went on sale for the first time.
Source Wikipedia — Intel 4004
1965
Research
Moore's law is stated
Gordon Moore predicted that the number of parts on a chip would double every year. In 1975 he changed this to every two years.
Source Wikipedia — Moore's law
1958
Research
The integrated circuit arrives
Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments built the first integrated circuit, putting several parts on one piece of semiconductor.
Source Wikipedia — Jack Kilby
1947
Research
The transistor is demonstrated for the first time
At Bell Labs in the United States, the transistor was first demonstrated, a small part that amplifies and switches electrical signals. It is the basic unit of every chip today.
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