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1876 Telephone invented by Graham Bell 1876 1897 Cathode ray tube invented by Karl Ferdinand Braun 1897 1900 Telegraph, telephone, 1900 Two-electrode vacuum tube invented by John Fleming wireless communication

Three-electrode vacuum tube invented by Lee De Forest Wireless communication Vacuum tube Television receiver with a cathode ray tube devised technology technology by Russian scientist Boris Rosing 1910 1910

Semiconductor prehistory: Radio broadcasting 1920 Development of electronic circuit 1920 and control technology First radio station starts broadcasting TV broadcasting Radio broadcasting starts in the UK World’s first successful reception of images using a cathode ray tube Radio broadcasting starts in Japan Successful TV transmission experiment between New York and Washington DC Experimental TV broadcasting starts 1930 1930 Demand for durable solid state devices Computer Worlds’ first regular TV broadcasting starts Atanasoff‒Berry computer (ABC) invented in the UK (BBC) Bell Labs Model 1 relay computer introduced 1940 1940 Photovoltaic effect in silicon discovered by Russell Ohl (at Bell Labs) Codebreaking computer Colossus introduced P- and n-type conduction discovered by Jack Scaff Technique to manufacture p- and n-type semiconductors by World’s first general-purpose computer ENIAC completed doping impurities discovered by Henry Theuerer and Jack Scaff Point-contact transistor discovered by Walter Brattain and John Bardeen NHK starts experimental TV Junction transistor theory published by William Shockley broadcasting in Japan 1950 1950 Transistor Bell Labs licenses transistor technology First commercial-use computer UNIVAC I introduced Field-effect transistor theory published by William Shockley technology Solar cell invented Japan’s first transistor radio TR-55 First transistorized computer TRADIC introduced Gas diffusion method invented by Calvin Fuller released by Sony Eiichi Goto at the University of Tokyo invents“parametron” logic circuit element First commercial-use transistor computer IBM 608 announced Esaki diode invented by Leo Esaki Japan’s first electronic computer FUJIC introduced Demonstration of IC by Texas Instruments (TI) Last vacuum tube computer IBM 709 released Fairchild and TI announce IC IC technology Electronic calculator IBM 7070, 7090, CDC 1604 1960 Computer 1960 Prototyping of MOSFET at Bell Labs First electronic calculator PDP-1 released by DEC technology Planar IC patent granted ANITA Mk VIII introduced Semiconductor IC-based calculator PDP-5 released by DEC memory CS-31A released by Sharp IBM System 360 announced First semiconductor memory DRAM LSI-based calculator Intel ships 64-bit prototyped at IBM QT-80 released by Sharp Internet bipolar semiconductor CCD invented at Bell Labs ARPANET introduced memory chips Personal computer 1970 1970 Intel ships world’s first DRAM Intel 1103 (1 kbit) Video game Xerox Alto completed PDP-11 released by DEC World’s first microprocessor Intel 4004 announced Video game Pong announced Altair 8800 computer kit announced Intel 8080 announced NEC TK-80 introduced Microprocessor Cray-1 announced Motorola 6800 announced Microcomputer magazine I/O inaugurated Ethernet announced Z80 announced by Masatoshi Shima technology First West Coast Computer Faire held Video game Space Invaders Apple II released by Apple Computer Intel 8086 (16-bit) announced announced ASCII magazine inaugurated 1980 1980 Intel 80286 announced Flash memory invented Atari shock (video game crash) IBM PC released Intel 80386 (32-bit) announced by Fujio Masuoka Nintendo Family Computer released NEC PC-8801, PC-6001 announced TRON project inaugurated by Ken Sakamura IBM PC compatible computer released Successful prototyping of Sega Mega Drive released by Compaq Intel 80486 announced 16 Mb DRAM by NTT Nintendo Game Boy released 1990 Macintosh announced 1990 Mobile phone Nintendo Super Famicom released WWW specification released Intel Pentium announced Mosaic browser released Digital mobile phone Blue LED invented by Shuji Nakamura Panasonic 3DO REAL released Windows 95 announced IIJ starts network connection service in Japan service starts Sega Saturn released PHS service starts SCE PlayStation released Netscape Navigator announced i-mode service starts Nintendo 64 released Java announced 2000 2000 Cell Broadband Engine announced Smartphones SCE PlayStation 2 released Earth Simulator SCE PSP released starts operations Apple announces One-seg Nintendo DS released Into Nanotechnology Age the iPhone service SCE PlayStation 3 released Research in quantum bits, quantum algorithms, Android phones starts in and quantum optics makes progress announced Japan 2010 2010 Wearable devices Digital Apple releases iPad K computer starts operations switchover Google Glass SCE PlayStation 4 released of terrestrial Wireless communication announced TV in Japan

2014 2014 Apple: Personal 3D printer released NVIDIA GeForce GT1030 announced AI (artiﬁcial intelligence) Remote medical treatment Apple Watch Virtual Reality（VR） Deep learning (virtual care) released Augmentted Reality（AR） D-Wave Systems delivers a quantum computer product NHK starts Autonomous driving becomes NTT successfully conducts 5G trials 4K and 8K commercially available in outside environment Commercial drone released Method for enabling massive optical quantum computing Nintendo Switch released test broadcasting Four Japanese GPS Michibiki satellites invented by Akira Furusawa at the University of Tokyo become operational 2017 2017

Compound semiconductor Nanoscale processing Mobile phone Digital entertainment Personal computer Next-generation supercomputer Ubiquitous network High-k metal gate Quantum mechanics Smartphone Network game Tablet Data center Cloud computing Power semiconductor New semiconductor structures Wearable device Edge computing device Industrial robot Space development (3D NAND, FinFET)