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Ted Hoff on Intel Founder Gordon Moore – Part 12
Weissberger lets Ted have the last word by describing his relationship with Intel co-founder Gordon Moore. Hoff recounts an early visit to Moore’s office and an IEEE technical meeting where Gordon was a panelist. Moore would hold semiconductor process information very “close to the vest.” When Moore was asked, “Could you tell us how much Si…
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Intel Missing the Mobile Computing Boom vs. Servers & Cloud Computing – Part 13
Ted expresses his concern that the financial media has not been kind to Intel. The company is portrayed as lucky when it succeeds or that the market is evaporating when competitors fall behind. Dave adds that “the biggest mistake companies make is falling in love with a strategy.” Yet the mobile computing business would be…
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The Story on the Intel Supercomputer – Part 14
Computer historian Roy Mize asks “what ever happened to Intel’s supercomputers.” Dave says Intel always had a research activity, headed by Justin Rattner (now Intel CTO). That group developed a hyper-cube supercomputer – composed of multiple microprocessors- that was sold to the government. Intel is now out of that business. Dave was still at Intel when they…
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What about the 432? – Part 15
An audience member asks, “No one remembers the Intel 432 (microprocessor). Please provide a brief summary.” Dave says that when he first came to Intel, Justin Rattner made a proposal for the 8800-an object-oriented machine that was to replace the 8080 microprocessor. House traces through various iterations of the 8800, which eventually became the 432. Ted recalls…
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Images from IEEE-CNSV October 1st panel, Intel’s Transition to Success…..
