MOSIS (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Implementation Service)'s probably the oldest (1981) integrated circuit (IC) foundry service and one of the first Internet services other than supercomputing services and basic infrastructure such as E-mail or FTP. MOSIS's operated by the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California (USC). MOSIS merges multiple IC designs submitted by both companies and universities onto multi-project wafers (MPW) to share the cost of fabrication among… (More on Mosis)