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From Tubes to Semiconductors
Paul Wesling (GTE/Lenkurt), Norm Pond (Varian) and Ted Hoff (Intel) explain the transition from tubes to semiconductors and describe the resulting transformation of the Valley of the Hearts Delight into Silicon Valley. Starting in the early 1900s, this fascinating talk shows how modern concepts, like hackathons and sharing, were a factor in the development of homegrown technology…
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Ted Hoff Looks at Silicon Valley in the 60s
Ted Hoff gives his perspective on Silicon Valley in the late 1950s and 1960s. He talks about some of the technologies he worked on and saw at Stanford, including analog memory, pattern recognition, microwave radio technology and lasers. He points out that Stanford’s ties with industry allowed the exchange of ideas that helped Silicon Valley…
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Ted Hoff Commenting on Moore’s Law
Ted Hoff explains the economics of Moore’s law and how it was a useful tool for predicting the cost of an integrated circuit. He also talks about Intel’s 1102 and 1103 chips, as well as Intel’s first building.
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Busicom Impact on Intel
Ted Hoff talks about the importance of Intel’s contract with Busicom in the late 1960s to produce chips for a calculator and how that effort became the basis for their first microprocessor.
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The Development of the Intel 4004 Microprocessor
Ted Hoff talks about the development of the Intel 4004 microprocessor. As the architect of this first microprocessor, Hoff brings unique insight into its role in shaping Intel into the semiconductor juggernaut that it became.
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Intel Management and Environment
Ted Hoff talks about Intel’s special environment and gives Andy Grove credit for creating a predictable and accurate engineering process.
