Professor Juan Carlos López interviewed on RNE, in the program on the shoulders of giants
chip shortage
On February 6, 1959, the first patent for a integrated circuit, also known as chip or microchip, a work for which the engineer Jack S. Kilby would receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in the year 2.000. Integrated circuits are found in all modern electronic devices, from watches to washing machines, medical equipment, mobile phones and computers. And it is expected that their use will be greater in the future because many analog devices are now digital, such as thermostats and smart light bulbs, not to mention cars, where electronics have gained great prominence with advanced driving assistance systems. But the industry has run into a serious problem: a shortage of chips. We have interviewed Juan Carlos Lopez, Professor of Technologies and Information Systems at the University of Castilla-La Mancha.
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