Complete the table.
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Use the expressions from the box and complete the following sentences.
| photolithography power performance capability lightweight useful cores complexity microprocessors layers substrate |
1. Semiconductor devices, as well as passive components, are manufactured on the surface of a thin of semiconductor material.
2. The rapid adoption of standardized ICs was due to its mass production .
3. An IC is printed as a unit by .
4. is high since the components switch fast and consume little .
5. SSI circuits were crucial to aerospace projects as they needed digital computers for their guidance systems.
6. A three-dimensional integrated circuit has two or more of active electronic components on a single circuit.
7. Microwaves are controlled by .
8. Integrated circuits have become for the last 50 years.
9. The term ULSI is used to denote chips of of more than 1ml transistors.
10. The most advanced are which control everything.
| Time period | Scale of integration | Number of transistors per chip |
| 1960s | SSI | a few |
| hundreds of transistors | ||
| mid 1970s | ||
| VLSI | ||
| over a million |
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