However, in a legal action involving Bower and Dill, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals determined that Kerwin, Klein and Sarace were the true inventors of the self-aligned silicon gate transistor.
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In the 1970s, the fundamental inventions by Federico Faggin ( Silicon Gate MOS ICs with self-aligned gates along with his new random logic design methodology ) changed the design and implementation of CPUs forever.
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Intel's SRAM . Busicom's management agreed to Hoff's new approach and the chips'implementation was led by Federico Faggin who had previously developed the Silicon Gate Technology at Fairchild Semiconductor.
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Most importantly, Faggin created in 1968, while working at Fairchild Semiconductor, the self-aligned MOS silicon gate technology that made possible dynamic memories, non-volatile memories, CCD image sensors, and the microprocessor.
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These silicon gates are still used in most types of MOSFET based integrated circuits, although metal gates ( Cu ) started to reappear in the early 2000s for certain types of high speed circuits, such as high performance microprocessors.
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The silicon gate technology ( SGT ) was also adopted by Intel at its founding ( July 1968 ), and within a few years became the core technology for the fabrication of MOS integrated circuits worldwide, lasting to this day.
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He then designed the first integrated circuit using silicon gate, the Fairchild 3708, an 8-bit analog multiplexer with decoding logic, that had the same functionality of the Fairchild 3705, a metal-gate production IC that Fairchild Semiconductor had difficulty making on account of its rather stringent specifications.
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He also had the crucial knowledge of the new silicon gate process technology with self-aligned gates, which he had created at Marcian " Ted " Hoff, head of the Application Research Department, contributed the architectural proposal for Busicom working with Stanley Mazor in 1969, then he moved on to other projects.
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In response, Noyce discreetly planned a new company with Gordon Moore, the head of R & D . They left Fairchild to found Intel in 1968 and were soon joined by Andrew Grove and Leslie L . Vad�sz, who took with them the revolutionary MOS Silicon Gate Technology ( SGT ), recently created in the Fairchild R & D Laboratory by Federico Faggin who also designed the Fairchild 3708, the world s first commercial MOS integrated circuit using SGT . Fairchild MOS Division was slow in understanding the potential of the SGT which promised not only faster, more reliable, and denser circuits, but also new device types that could enlarge the field of solid state electronics for example, CCDs for image sensors, dynamic RAMs, and non-volatile memory devices such as EPROM and flash memories.
