First there was Large Scale Integration (LSI), with hundreds and thousands of transistors per chip, then came Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI), with tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of transistors.

• 首先，出现了一个芯片上具有数百和数千个晶体管的大规模集成电路(LSI)，接着出现了一个芯片上具有数万和数十万个晶体管的超大规模集成电路(VLSI)。