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1st Generation
Valves
2nd Generation
Semiconductor Devices, Diode and single Transistor
3rd Generation
Small Scale Integrated Circuits (SSI): Less than 100 Transistors per Integrated Circuit or chip
Medium Scale Integrated Circuits (MSI): 100 to 1000 Transistors per Integrated Circuit or chip
Medium Scale Integrated Circuits (MSI): 100 to 1000 Transistors per Integrated Circuit or chip
4th Generation
Large Scale Integrated Circuits (LSI): 1000 to 10000 Transistors per Integrated Circuit or chip
Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits (VLSI): 10000 to 1 million Transistors per Integrated Circuit or chip
Large Scale Integrated Circuits (LSI): 1000 to 10000 Transistors per Integrated Circuit or chip
Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits (VLSI): 10000 to 1 million Transistors per Integrated Circuit or chip
5th Generation
Ultra Large Scale Integrated Circuits (ULSI): over 1 million Transistors per Integrated Circuit or Chip
6th Generation
Name of this technology yet to be determined: Over one billion transistors per Integrated Circuit or Chip