(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, CA.)  Invented in 1947, this device that replaced the vacuum tube can now be a mere 150 atoms thick on a computer chip
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Solid-State Century  From Scientific American, September 1948: this early detailed report on the ... Surprisingly, transistors have not made vacuum tubes obsolete in all ... The personal computer will disperse into a personal network of savvy, doting .... Telephone Laboratories was the transistor, the device that ..... transistors can now be found.
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Smaller Chips May Depend on Vacuum Tube Technology - The ...  Jun 5, 2016 ... The vacuum tube, a 100-year-old technology replaced by transistors, could ... Subscribe Now ... Gordon Moore, an Intel co-founder, holding a silicon wafer in 2005. ... of a thick plastic vacuum chamber at what they hope will be the next ... Smaller, Faster, Cheaper, Over: The Future of Computer Chips SEPT.
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Fairchild Semiconductor - Computer History Museum - Archive Server  the monthly task of reporting Fairchild device sales (units and dollars)by device ... 1968 when I joined Fairchild Semiconductor in Mountain View, CA. ..... manufacturing plant outside Santa Clara County. ..... number of transistors on a silicon chip would increase from 50 in 1965 to ..... He was replaced in the Semiconductor.
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From Tube to Chip: Early Computer History - SlideShare  Apr 7, 2007 ... Professor Mindy McAdams's presentation about vacuum tubes, ... From Tube to Chip Presentation by Mindy McAdams Thursday, Week 13 In ... You could build (and repair) your own TV set Early Computers ..... Next Step: The Transistor <ul><li>Invented at Bell Labs in 1947 </li></ul><ul><li>Replaced the...
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Computer history - SlideShare  Jan 21, 2015 ... Using 18,00-19,000 vacuum tubes, 70,000 resistors and 5 million soldered ... J Wagner March 20, 200 TRANSISTOR 1948 This tiny device had a ... J Wagner March 20, 200 ALTAIR 1975 Based on the Intel 8080 processor, capable of ... a "personal" computer were now opened to the computer world.
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Intel Corporation (1) - Scribd  Evolution of Intel inside Branding Strategy y In March 1991. y Company s ... with The computer inside tagline which was used everywhere in the world. ... The chip contain over 3mn transistor. intel introduced its first ad for pentium processor. ... Continued.describing some detail how the pentium processor made PC run faster...
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Digging into Technology's Past - Archaeology Magazine Archive  The 6502 is the last of that generation where processor manufacturing was a work of art, ... Bill Mensch refers to himself as a tall, thin man, a term that among the ... In particular, Mensch was responsible for the design of the chip's circuitry. ... Apple Computer cofounder Stephen Wozniak was among those who picked up a...
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Intel Pays High Price for Losing Focus - Public Relations Practices  Case 6-4 Intel Pays High Price ... By 1994, 80 percent of per- ... Pentium series of chipsthe company's most ... company discovered that the chip contained a flawa bug that affected complicated compu- ... 1994 (18 months later) when a new chip was .... had been: It took a $475 million charge ... Not Intel's Last Recall.
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Atomic Patents - Alex Wellerstein  Below are some of the more interesting once-secret "atomic patents" I came ... 2,100 separate patent applications to be filedin secretwith the US Patent Office. ... bred in a nuclear reactor of the type invented by Fermi and Szilard (above). ... apiecenot bad money in 1955, but still not anything as much as the patents...
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Computers in Society 06/07 - McGraw Hill Higher Education  in the interaction of computers and society would be hard- ... puters with each of these dimensions changes from year to year. ...... 1. Penrose, R. The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws .... from an office in a San Jose suburb to one in Manhattan. Not ...... Japanese rivals, Intel Corp. exited the memory-chip busi-.
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jeopardy/1771_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Albert Chi: an Internet engineer from Los Angeles, California ..... ON THE "TELE" | (<http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-03-09_DJ_16.jpg> Kelly of the Clue Crew draws on a weather map on a screen.) One of the few Individual Engineering Emmy Awards went to Leonard Reiffel who invented this technology in the 1960s...
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Intel mastermind, Silicon Valley statesman Andy Grove dead at 79 ...  Mar 21, 2016 ... Grove, who was Jewish, was born Andras Grof in Budapest in 1936. ... He became Intel's president in 1979, CEO in 1987 and chairman and...
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1956 Nobel Prize in Physics: The Transistor - Bell Labs  ... and William Shockley won the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their 1947 invention of a ... The transistor is the workhorse of electronic technology, the device that ... For example, when a tiny bit of phosphorus is doped into silicon, a good...
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September XX, 2008  ... These appliances introduced by Raytheon in 1947 aid the work of desperate housewives in the kitchen microwave A microspectrophotometer is used by a CSI...
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Microwave Oven - Southwest Museum Of Engineering ...  Percy Spencer, while working for the Raytheon Company, discovered a more ... In 1945, Spencer created a device to cook food using microwave radiation. ... magnetron), when he discovered that the candy bar in his pocket had melted. ... Engineers went to work on Spencer's hot new idea, developing and refining it for...
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Intel Company Profile | Owler  Founded: 1968. Headquarters: Santa Clara, California, USA. Status: Public, NASDAQ, INTC. Industry Sector: Electronic Equipment (895); Computer Hardware...
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J! Archive - Show #618, aired 1987-04-22  Scott Myers, a teacher from Covina, California. Marian Evans Melnick, a former bank manager ... Replacing germanium with this in transistors got a California "Valley" named after it ... Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 11):...
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fUSION Anomaly. Vannevar Bush  Mar 23, 2002 ... Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). There he invented the differential analyzer, a forerunner of the modern computer. Bush is best...
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From Tubes To Transistors - Computer History 101: The ...  Aug 24, 2011 ... The first-generation computers were known for using vacuum tubes in their construction. ... Computer History 101: The Development Of The PC.
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The History of the Integrated Circuit - Nobelprize.org  May 5, 2003 ... These components are like the building blocks in an electrical ... In the summer of 1958 Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments found a ... and the chip out of the same block (monolith) of semiconductor material. ... Robert Noyce came up with his own idea for the integrated circuit. ... Chip Production Today - in Short...
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Silicon Valley History & Future - NetValley  Quite likely it was the first time the term was used in print (Don C. Hoefler, publisher of ... the congeries of electronics firms mushroomingin Santa Clara county. ... On November 15, 1971 Intel created the world's first microprocessor: the Intel 4004. ... Silicon Valley is defined as the following cities: Santa Clara County (all)...