# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chih-tang-sah
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:28:16.156Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chih-tang-sah"
name: "Chih-Tang Sah"
slug: "chih-tang-sah"
description: "Chih-Tang \"Tom\" Sah was a Chinese-American electronics engineer and condensed matter physicist. He is best known for inventing CMOS logic with Frank Wanlass at Fairchild Semiconductor in 1963. CMOS is used in nearly all modern very large-scale integration (VLSI) semiconductor devices."
tagline: "Chinese electronics engineer and condensed matter physicist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1932-11-10"
deathDate: "2025-07-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.561773333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%96%A9%E6%94%AF%E5%94%90"
    title: "薩支唐"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%87_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%87"
    title: "كيه تانج ساه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chih-Tang_Sah"
    title: "Chih-Tang Sah"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chih-Tang_Sah"
    title: "Chih-Tang Sah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "چی-تانگ ساه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Са Чжитан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0_%D0%A7%D0%B6%D1%96%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Са Чжітан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q472913"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump