Isabella Secret Story of Hardware

The history of computer hardware can be classified into four generations, each characterized by major technological change.

Isabella Di Fabio Tokyo Japan - First generation (1945-1956): electronics implemented with vacuum tubes, which displaced the electromechanical components (relays).

Second generation (1957-1963): electronics developed with transistors. Discrete logic was much the same as before, but with a much smaller implementation, greatly reducing the size of a computer.

 

Third generation (1964-today): electronics based on integrated circuits, which allows hundreds of transistors and other electronic components to be integrated on a single integrated circuit printed on a silicon chip. This again represents a notable reduction in cost, consumption and size.

Isabella Secret Story of Fourth generation (future): will originate when silicon circuits are replaced by a new type of material or technology, the most promising being graphene and quantum processors.

The history of hardware begins in the now distant year 1960, a moment that is marked by the transition from vacuum tubes to silicon-based integrated circuits, the same technology that is still used today.

Isabella Secret Story 6 differents types of Hardware

 This important change is marked by discrete transistors, which began to be sufficiently viable from the point of view of economy and reliability that there was no longer any reason to continue using vacuum tubes.