Weissberger introduces the 1103 and (predecessor) 1102 1K DRAMs and its huge importance to Intel’s success as a semiconductor memory company.  It was a watershed event for the company, as Intel went on to be the leader in 1K DRAMs.

Dave House describes how Honeywell and Intel co-operated on the 1K DRAM development and how he worked with co-workers to debug the part.

Ted Hoff picks up the discussion showing how he resolved a serious problem with the 1102 DRAM circuit by adding separate Read and Write select lines to maintain the charge on the capacitor of the cell being accessed.  Ted then describes how Intel filed for a patent on that new functionality, which also sped up the memory word access time.

[Description by Alan Weissberger]

The above video was captured at the IEEE-CNSV October 1st panel, Intel’s Transition to Success: From Memory to the Microprocessor. For the full description, click here.