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Intel’s Transition to Success: From Memory to the Microprocessor – Complete Playlist
The above series of videos were captured at the IEEE-CNSV October 1st panel, Intel’s Transition to Success: From Memory to the Microprocessor, featuring former Intel legends, Ted Hoff and Dave House and moderated by Alan Weissberger. Weissberger provides an overview of the evening in this post on the IT History Society website. For the description of the panel, click here.…
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Ted Hoff and Dave House Introduction by Alan Weissberger – Part 1
Alan Weissberger introduces panelists and Silicon Valley legends, Ted Hoff and Dave House. As Weissberger points out, Hoff and House were instrumental players in helping build the foundation in the 1970s and 1980s for Intel to become an enduring brand and a symbol of Silicon Valley. In the videos that follow, Hoff and House share…
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Make or Break – The Story of the 1102 – Part 2
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…
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Intel’s Role in the Telecom Transition to Digital – Part 5
Ted Hoff is credited with and well -known in tech circles for the invention of the microprocessor. As Alan Weissberger points out, his contribution to telecom is somewhat unheralded in comparison. In this video, he talks about how the telecom group he led at Intel in the 1970s sparked the revolution in telecom by creating…
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Intel’s Rise as the Microprocessor King – Part 7
Weissberger refocuses the discussion around microprocessors, noting that Intel didn’t always have the best architecture. House adds “never.” But Intel took a systems approach to the microprocessor business, while their competitors didn’t. How did that come about? Dave says that Bob Noyce instilled the systems approach within Intel. “The more you put on the chip,…
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Ted Hoff’s Insight on Bob Noyce and Andy Grove – Part 10
Weissberger asks Ted to share his experience with one of the true legends of Silicon Valley- Bob Noyce. Ted explains that, as a Stanford post-doc,he was “one of the names that came up” that were recommended to Noyce. Ted came to Noyce’s home and asked him whether the world needed another semiconductor company? Yes-the next…
