Very Large Scale Integration

VLSI redirects here. For the former company, see VLSI Technology. Very-large-scale integration (VLSI) is the process of creating integrated circuits by combining thousands of transistor-based circuits into a single chip. VLSI began in the 1970s when complex semiconductor and communication technologies were being developed. The microprocessor is a VLSI device. The term is no longer as common as it once was, as chips have increased in complexity into the hundreds of millions of transistors.
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<hardware> (VLSI) A term describing semiconductor integrated circuits composed of hundreds of thousands of logic elements or memory cells.
(1995-01-11)

Very Large Scale Integration - integrated circuits with greater than 100,000 transistors.