I discovered the impressive potentiality of miniaturization and integration very early in my career. In 1984, when I concluded my university studies, IBM on one side and Olivetti on the other side were struggling to reduce computer dimensions. The dream was to shrink into a tabletop machine a system occupying several great closets.
That dream now seems quite old: we hold in our hands electronic devices much more powerful, easier to use, and functionally richer than 1984 computers. Integrated electronics has radically changed our way of living: neither the Internet nor mobile communications would have been possible without it.
Miniaturization has been applied to many fields since the first revolutionary successes: miniaturized optical ...
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