Fairchild Briefing on Integrated Circuits

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  • [Recorded: October, 1967]
    This half hour color promotional/educational film on the integrated circuit was produced and sponsored by Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation and first shown on television on October 11, 1967. In the film, Dr. Harry Sello and Dr. Jim Angell describe the integrated circuit (IC), discuss its design and development process, and offer examples of late 1960s uses of IC technology.
    Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation was one of the most influential early high-tech companies. Founded in Palo Alto California in 1957 by eight scientists and engineers from Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation was funded by Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation of Syossett, New York. Rapidly establishing itself as a technology innovator based on its invention of the planar manufacturing process in 1959, the company developed the first monolithic integrated circuit, the first CMOS device, and numerous other technical and business innovations. French oil field services company Schlumberger Limited purchased Fairchild in 1979 and sold a much weakened business to National Semiconductor in 1987. In 1997 National divested a group, formed as the present Fairchild Semiconductor, in a leveraged buy-out. The company re-emerged as a public entity based in South Portland, Maine in 1999 under the corporate name Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc.
    Fairchild Semiconductor presented its new products and technologies with an entrepreneurial style, and its early manufacturing and marketing techniques helped give Californias Santa Clara County a new name: Silicon Valley. It was one of the early forerunners of what would become a worldwide high-tech industry, as evidenced in this short promotional film.
    Catalog Number: 102651800
    Lot Number: X3929.2007
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Komentáře • 326

  • @Fuzzybeanerizer
    @Fuzzybeanerizer Před 3 lety +17

    59 seconds into video: "But first, let's have a commercial."
    These brilliant geniuses anticipated our modern CZcams 54 years ahead of its time!

  • @naota3k
    @naota3k Před 3 lety +26

    Dr. Jim Angell died in 2006, and Dr. Harry Sello in 2017.
    Thanks, Jim & Harry. A nice legacy, RIP.

  • @amantin
    @amantin Před 4 lety +128

    Old videos like this seem to be so more understandable.
    Simple language,
    good analogies,
    not too much high res fluff,
    Good incentive to teach

    • @cheponis
      @cheponis Před 3 lety +18

      It's much, much more difficult to explain the complex simply than to complexify the already complex. When you see something complex explained simply and accurately, you know that very smart people were involved - because it takes Real Smarts to de-complexify.

    • @jps-ib8vh
      @jps-ib8vh Před rokem +8

      and no background music!!!!!!

    • @gregdee9085
      @gregdee9085 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Because there used to be a "barrier to entry" to making these, it was expensive with expensive equipment.. so only the best got through to make them.. unlike now.. "everyone's a DJ".

  • @buckykattnj
    @buckykattnj Před 6 lety +16

    I just signed up for the Fairchild TV Briefing brochures in the video. I can't wait to get them!

    • @demef758
      @demef758 Před 5 lety +5

      They never received it because you didn't use a ZIP code in the address!

  • @MagicalGentleman
    @MagicalGentleman Před 8 lety +179

    I wish more educational films were made in this style, they're great.

    • @Cypeq
      @Cypeq Před 3 lety +4

      Nah make them 5 minutes long skipping all the details.

    • @joejia1410
      @joejia1410 Před 3 lety +2

      @@Cypeq why?

    • @milominderbinder6209
      @milominderbinder6209 Před 3 lety +6

      @@joejia1410 sarcasm

    • @ramencurry6672
      @ramencurry6672 Před 3 lety +2

      Back then men were gentlemen and drank rob roys and manhattans

  • @thecaptainb1
    @thecaptainb1 Před 11 lety +69

    This is some old stuff. I started in Fairchild's material division in 1971, then off to CMOS in 1974. Fun times, but serious work.

    • @ramencurry6672
      @ramencurry6672 Před 3 lety +1

      Amazing stuff

    • @thecaptainb1
      @thecaptainb1 Před 3 lety +7

      @@ramencurry6672 Back then, I built our own Diffusion furnaces from scratch. Those were the days!

    • @estebanquito545
      @estebanquito545 Před 2 lety +1

      what an experience!!!!

    • @christopherjackson2157
      @christopherjackson2157 Před 2 lety +3

      That's really cool. U must have witnessed the birth of so many things people of generation couldn't imagine life without.

  • @tschak909
    @tschak909 Před 11 lety +69

    It is worth noting, the process described here used a contact mask, producing PMOS chips. The achilles heel of this process was of course, the net yield of working chips from a given die. This is mentioned in this video Even by the mid 1970s, this yield was approximately 20 to 30 percent. Process pioneers, like John Pavinen developed an N-channel process using non-contact masks at MOS technologies during 1974, and increased the net yield of masks to over 70%. Making the $25 6502 CPU possible.

    • @petermitchell6348
      @petermitchell6348 Před 6 lety +3

      AH yes, the 6502. As used by Apple and Acorn Computers, who went on to design the very first ARM processor.

    • @demef758
      @demef758 Před 5 lety +29

      The process described here is not MOS, but bipolar. MOS was around about this time, but it had some serious problems that caused the threshold voltage to change with the applied gate voltage. Fairchild finally solved this puzzle when Bruce Deal revealed the culprit: mobile sodium atoms in the oxide beneath the gate. Once that contaminant was removed, then stable MOS devices could be made, which begat the MOS revolution. I worked in PMOS at Fairchild in 1971, and then NMOS came along another year or two after that. Here we have another example of Fairchild's pioneering leadership.

    • @gregd6022
      @gregd6022 Před 3 lety +3

      @@petermitchell6348 for the record Apple had no hand in the "design" of the ARM proc, they were just finance, and a lot later in the game. (this is not from a google search)

    • @AgentOffice
      @AgentOffice Před 3 lety

      Do you think they would have put someone in a psych ward for making 2nm?

  • @Haruki_Aikawa
    @Haruki_Aikawa Před 3 lety +31

    When your company has a “commercial” for the the product it’s selling, within the film that’s demonstrating said product... Savage..

  • @igorbecker2323
    @igorbecker2323 Před 2 lety +9

    Old school videos are a lot clearer/more detailed than contemporary videos. Much better for educational purposes

  • @alfonso3967
    @alfonso3967 Před 3 lety +10

    With so many ic manufacturers, I didn't know how much we owe Fairchild for what we have today. This is one video deserves a lot being here. Thanks for sharing it.

  • @youreale
    @youreale Před 11 lety +21

    Companies like this have all my respect. This groundbreaking work made possible the future where we actually live.

    • @climbeverest
      @climbeverest Před 3 lety +1

      The Syosset based company did not give the engineers the respect and latitude they deserved so they left and formed intel

    • @freelectron2029
      @freelectron2029 Před 3 lety

      and now comes sky net.... yay

  • @fukhue8226
    @fukhue8226 Před 10 lety +82

    Born in 1958 and professionally working in the Consumer Electronics Repair Industry since 1977 I can tell you that we are on an extremely fast track with technology. When I started working in 1977 there were still some tubes in TV circuits. I saw the first (Fairchild) integrated circuit used in a TV. Quasar had an IC for the AFT (auto fine tune) circuit. I have installed thousands of Fairchild components. Today I solder individual resistors the size of a grain of pepper using hot air instead of a soldering iron. What will tomorrow bring?

    • @lemaro1977
      @lemaro1977 Před 7 lety +1

      yeah.,.. it´s amazing to see what we have today! few years ago i saw a kid with a tablet on a museum... suddenly came to my mind that image of the future portrayed in movies and tv sci fi...!

    • @Tadesan
      @Tadesan Před 6 lety

      Fuck you too.

    • @hoverant7709
      @hoverant7709 Před 5 lety +1

      i was bornn recently and i can tell you i wouldve like to see the process of the use of integrated circuits insteaad of not seeing it and not knowing their uses

    • @fitofight8540
      @fitofight8540 Před 5 lety

      Fuk Hue Repairman will not be needed in the future

    • @LouSaydus
      @LouSaydus Před 5 lety

      all of these systems are still in use, they are just smaller and faster. If you study these things you can make amazing tech. Start young and you'll have a bright future ahead of you.

  • @richhenry8004
    @richhenry8004 Před 3 lety +5

    Kids should watch this just to understand the monumental work that went in to what we have today. I feel like they think it was easy, or that it all just appeared out of thin air.

  • @quatz1981
    @quatz1981 Před 2 lety +6

    Its impressive that even then how small the integrated circuit was. Its mind boggling how far we have come though and the level of miniaturization we have on our chips today.

  • @oo0O08
    @oo0O08 Před 12 lety +15

    I never thought I could sit through a half our documentary on integrated circuits and remain fascinated throughout.

  • @Skidd2
    @Skidd2 Před 6 lety +39

    This is amazing what they accomplished in 1966... things like this made our modern life possible!

    • @misterkota1252
      @misterkota1252 Před 4 lety +1

      Skidd2 because... aliens

    • @hannunorppa5590
      @hannunorppa5590 Před 4 lety +2

      @@misterkota1252 If I didn't do electronics since 1970 as a kid, well, not aliens, I might have claimed as well: We could not go to the moon because of those primitive computers in Apollos! Nonsense! Modest yes, but efficient enought for the Moon ride!

    • @AgentOffice
      @AgentOffice Před 3 lety

      If they started with 2nm we'd be further ahead now

  • @MichiganPeatMoss
    @MichiganPeatMoss Před 3 lety +3

    First heard of Fairchild when our "Channel F" video game system arrived by mail order one snowy day in 1981. :)

  • @stachowi
    @stachowi Před 14 lety +10

    All I can say is wow! I wish I saw this video in college. Explains the fundamentals extremely well. Back to basics, excellent. Thanks for posting!

  • @RRROBERT1990
    @RRROBERT1990 Před 10 lety +26

    these old videos are the best...

  • @stephanesonneville
    @stephanesonneville Před 5 lety +38

    52y after, DIP are still shipped in the same tubes.

    • @cheponis
      @cheponis Před 3 lety +2

      Why do our British friends call these 'DIL' ? I know what it stands for, but the US, where this package was invented, called them DIPs. How did EU start calling them "DILs" ?

    • @dreamyrhodes
      @dreamyrhodes Před 3 lety +1

      @@cheponis We call them DIP in Germany

    • @cheponis
      @cheponis Před 3 lety +1

      @@dreamyrhodes Proving once again the Superior Technical Choices of our German Friends! Thanks for fixing my overgeneralization.

    • @peplegal8253
      @peplegal8253 Před 3 lety +2

      @@cheponis : DIL is the name of the format...DIP means DIL using (cheaper) Plastic material.

    • @cheponis
      @cheponis Před 3 lety +2

      @@peplegal8253 So, DIL,P ? ;-) As compared with DIL,Ceramic...

  • @markjmaxwell9819
    @markjmaxwell9819 Před 5 lety +9

    Lollll
    Made my own circuit boards and soldered all my own parts on to it when l was 15 years old.
    Also did some study on micro computer architecture later in life.
    Technology and Engineering has always held a fascination.
    Loved my old texas instruments calculator 😉
    😃😃😃😃😃😃😃

    • @skilz8098
      @skilz8098 Před 4 lety +3

      I love my TI84 Silver Plus! I can do integration and derivatives with ease! I can write my own programs on it, and so much more! I can even play Tetris without sound on it!

    • @jvolstad
      @jvolstad Před 4 lety +3

      Same here. I was a Ham Radio Operator.

  • @dazaro3
    @dazaro3 Před 5 lety +4

    Great video ,and today smartphones have over 4 billion transistors! Amazing ,we have come a long way since 1967.

  • @philbox17
    @philbox17 Před rokem +4

    Great documentary. I don't think it is possible to find an older documentary about that technolgy, 1967. It was new. Created by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce, founder of Intel. The original of 1958 only had one transistor. The integrated circuits were used in Apollo Guidance Computer, 1966.

  • @predatortheme
    @predatortheme Před 11 lety +19

    yeah back then you could still understand and follow each circuit wire with the finger...

  • @apl175
    @apl175 Před 11 lety +5

    I've written in to Fairchild for my catalog and applications notes 19:15.

  • @macfixer01
    @macfixer01 Před 3 lety +2

    Obviously it was William Schallert who narrated the commercials. His voice is very distinctive.

  • @RoughTake
    @RoughTake Před 12 lety +13

    This is how I spend my Saturday nights babbyy :P !

  • @richardhall9815
    @richardhall9815 Před 3 lety +11

    Just four years after this video came out, Intel introduced the world's first microprocessor. Crazy.

  • @DoctorBlankenstein
    @DoctorBlankenstein Před 10 lety +19

    This changed our lives...

  • @Columba_Kos
    @Columba_Kos Před 3 lety +1

    @ What you are seeing here are two IF strips manufactured by HH Scott during the mid to late 1960s. Scott worked with Fairchild on the development of integrated circuits for these IF (intermediate frequency) strips. The IF stage shown here is for a FM tuner, such as the late model Scott 312B, or the first generation 312C. The presenter is not entirely honest with the audience: The IF stage that he demonstrates as pre- IC has one integrated circuit, the very one that Fairchild developed for Scott. Also, the "new" IF strip that he is holding was never used in a production unit made by HH Scott, although it doubtless came from Scott. It was most likely used in a specialized device (such as a broadcast monitor) made by Scott's instruments division.
    By 1967, all Scott IF stages, in FM tuners, FM receivers, and AM-FM receivers used IC's exclusively.

  • @mrtruongleo
    @mrtruongleo Před 19 dny

    I have watched many videos about how to create an IC chip, and this is the easiest one to understand. Thank you.

  • @raindogred
    @raindogred Před 6 lety +4

    Bob Noyce, who was one of the original traiterous 8, who left Shockley's company and started Fairchild Semiconductor, paved the way with his patents for manufacturing silicon transistors. At around the same time the first silicon transistors were being produced he realised that whole integrated circuits could be done similarly. probably not long after this video was produced he left Fairchild, and started Intel with Gordon Moore (of Moore's law fame) where they went onto to pioneer the first microprocessor. He also mentored Steve Jobs in late 70s.. Not much talk about Noyce these days. Incidentally he was known as the Mayor of Silicone valley. what a man...

    • @demef758
      @demef758 Před 5 lety +3

      Don't forget the other key founder of Intel: Andy Grove. Grove wrote the book on transistor fabrication. Noyce was an absolutely brilliant guy. Without question he is the founder of Silicon Valley. There will never be another like him, a true leader of men. (Sorry ladies, but that's the truth....)

  • @cosimoto1
    @cosimoto1 Před 8 lety +3

    I was reading about the dawn of IC Technology in Popular Electronics as it was unfolding! I remember a technically minded friend of mine talking with me saying "There's one.. that's an IC"! Seems like a lifetime ago!
    \

  • @discovertree55
    @discovertree55 Před 3 lety +3

    I’m sure Edward F Harris is thrilled that his social security number, birthdate and salary are shown at 23:15. 1967 was certainly a different time.

  • @wiiu7640
    @wiiu7640 Před 5 lety +5

    This is literally the best thing you could give someone who wants to go into computers/computer science.

  • @ComputerHistoryArchivesProject

    This is a real classic! Great historical information, and very well presented!

  • @GalacticJourney
    @GalacticJourney Před rokem +1

    Thank you so much for this! We'll be watching it on October 11, just like folks around the country 55 years ago...

  • @kennylavish
    @kennylavish Před 11 lety +6

    The intro is way cool with eerie sounds. Love the 'commercials'! I had to watch the whole thing it's very informative. Great old school video nice upload!

  • @hildapp7
    @hildapp7 Před 10 lety +4

    That was awesome! Thanks for sharing this video

  • @djtreq
    @djtreq Před 14 lety +3

    i really like the graphic design on that advertisement IC info packet / spec sheet booklet.

  • @ultort
    @ultort Před 8 lety +6

    Really good video, thanks you for putting this on youtube

  • @radiofun232
    @radiofun232 Před 3 lety +1

    Absolutely beautiful, also now 8 dec. 2020.

  • @halonothing1
    @halonothing1 Před 5 lety +3

    Good to know. I just ate several transistors and this makes me feel good about it.

  • @offmeds2nite
    @offmeds2nite Před 10 lety +8

    This is so retro, I love it.

  • @campbellmorrison8540
    @campbellmorrison8540 Před 2 lety

    Wow how things have change, wonderful to have these videos showing the progress we have made

  • @yourrich
    @yourrich Před 11 lety +3

    thanks! i've seen a bunch of these vids on this subject, and this one is the only one that i really been able to understand. Plus its datedness is entertaining. Great vid!

  • @xerxespamplemousse6622
    @xerxespamplemousse6622 Před 9 dny +1

    My dad worked on the probe machines for Fairchild, those machines that tested the circuits before they cut the wafers up. When the guys that started Fairchild left to start Intel, my dad left Fairchild and started a company manufacturing probe cards and probe machines. Intel was their biggest customer, I'm guessing because my dad and his partners knew the Intel founders personally.

  • @hokuspokus8570
    @hokuspokus8570 Před 7 lety +16

    50 years pass away and we can't still do this process in home damn ;)

    • @radioamigahualpin
      @radioamigahualpin Před 5 lety +1

      jajajajajajaj

    • @skilz8098
      @skilz8098 Před 4 lety +2

      Give it some time; and we might soon be able to 3D print our own programmable ICs! 3D printing is still in its infancy!

    • @bryceforsyth8521
      @bryceforsyth8521 Před 4 lety +5

      a few folk have gotten rather close.

    • @ciano5475
      @ciano5475 Před 4 lety +5

      You can try. :)
      See the work of Sam Zeloof.
      czcams.com/play/PLUEEHWqof4O0ygguwmay_-X40EKWX0jPU.html

    • @CriswellKOL
      @CriswellKOL Před 3 lety +1

      @@NerdyNEET PCBs yes, but integrated circuits involve far more miniaturization and a separate clean room for each step in IC fabrication.

  • @KutuluMike
    @KutuluMike Před 5 lety +54

    Fairchild: "Metal over oxide... you can't make an integrated circuit without it!"
    Polysilicon: "Hold my beer."

    • @robertturner2000
      @robertturner2000 Před 4 lety +9

      The silicon gate technology was actually developed by Federico while working at Fairchild. He followed Noyce and Moore to their company, intel, but eventually left to found Zilog... I love reading anything written by Federico Faggin - quite an interesting fellow

    • @foxtrot312
      @foxtrot312 Před 3 lety +1

      Is Metal-over-oxide same as metal oxide? As in MOSFET

    • @peplegal8253
      @peplegal8253 Před 3 lety +1

      @@foxtrot312 : Yes.

  • @mcbrianmiller1264
    @mcbrianmiller1264 Před 3 lety +1

    This is an awesome awesome video. Thanks for the Upload

  • @RayR
    @RayR Před 11 lety +2

    Amazing. Simply amazing.

  • @americanspirit8932
    @americanspirit8932 Před 3 lety +1

    Nobody ever mentioned who started everything the granddaddy AT&T Bell Labs invented the transistor I believe it was 1947? I work for AT&T for 36 years and proud of it great company

  • @odiadisylvester867
    @odiadisylvester867 Před 4 lety +1

    Wow I love this and I'm satisfied.. Thanks

  • @edgeeffect
    @edgeeffect Před 3 lety +2

    WOW! CNC wire wrapping... That's like "yesterday's tomorrow today"!!!
    Bet that pack of technical/advertising literature would fetch a pretty penny on E. Bay now. *** VINTAGE ****

  • @user-be7gj3jp4u
    @user-be7gj3jp4u Před 14 lety +1

    I love it! Thanks for the upload.

  • @davidmaddison2628
    @davidmaddison2628 Před 2 lety

    Outstanding and historic film.

  • @quadrant2005
    @quadrant2005 Před 14 lety +1

    Thank you so much for posting this video i found it very interesting and really informative.. regards Richard

  • @piad2102
    @piad2102 Před 2 lety

    Music is always cool in these old clips. :)

  • @stuartthegrant
    @stuartthegrant Před 14 lety +1

    What an interesting vidio.
    Thanks for posting..

  • @k7iq
    @k7iq Před 3 lety +2

    Yes, this is a GReAT video ! I notice that how they speak hasn't changed much in newer IC company technical-ish videos... I mean, their speech is somewhat robotic and they are obviously not public speakers in real life. So must be real engineers I guess !

  • @mibo747
    @mibo747 Před 2 lety

    STUNNING DOCUMENT
    Techniques used until now

  • @toresbe
    @toresbe Před 11 lety +6

    It really took me by surprise when he compared the price of silicon ingot to diamond. Yikes, we've gotten better at that, too.

  • @f0cusNa0
    @f0cusNa0 Před 11 lety

    amazing to think of how far we have advanced since then

  • @FrancisMaxino
    @FrancisMaxino Před 5 lety +2

    Looking at this video it appears ICs haven't actually done anything but become smaller and more refined and are essentially still pretty much the same.

  • @TWak4ord
    @TWak4ord Před 3 lety +2

    somewhere I have an old Fairchild catalog from when I was @ State Tech.
    I forget what did Fairchild merge into/ become?

    • @paulgriffith9570
      @paulgriffith9570 Před 2 měsíci

      Fairchild Camera and Instrument was bought by Schlumberger and eventually spun back off and still exists today..

  • @Airobatorman
    @Airobatorman Před 14 lety +2

    thx for oploading

  • @cammorris55
    @cammorris55 Před 10 lety +2

    Great history lesson.

  • @f0cusNa0
    @f0cusNa0 Před 11 lety +2

    i would wish i had some of those old books to look at, it would be soo cool xD

  • @renekenshin6573
    @renekenshin6573 Před 13 lety +2

    This is cool thanks for upload

  • @uasserkamal2002
    @uasserkamal2002 Před 2 lety

    that is what i looked for.....thx very much for that

  • @ThedudeMMXlll
    @ThedudeMMXlll Před 4 lety

    It would be awesome, if they make a movie out this invention.

  • @ragegamer6723
    @ragegamer6723 Před 4 lety +3

    Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Steve Wozniak were given so many props and attention. However, these guys would've ended up your average person just like you and me if it weren't for Jack Kilby. Now this man I've never heard of in my 44 years on this earth. Until recently. Look him up.

  • @sudhar10C
    @sudhar10C Před 14 lety

    Thanks CHM!

  • @ericbana191
    @ericbana191 Před 10 měsíci

    The base for every other technologies we are enjoying in 2023.
    I'm wondering if these books are still available for reading.

  • @josiahsuarez
    @josiahsuarez Před 8 lety +6

    blast from the past

  • @StreetArtistsOfTheWorld
    @StreetArtistsOfTheWorld Před 4 lety +4

    I want those books! I wonder If I still send a return envelope to Fairchild if I'll get a reply! :p

  • @chrisfelan2665
    @chrisfelan2665 Před 9 měsíci

    During this video from 7:20 to 12:45 this guy describes my modern day job in the simplest form. But today’s process in the fab is obviously much more advanced.

  • @estebanquito545
    @estebanquito545 Před 6 lety +1

    another thing that is impressive is the tooling to make these ic's, the same goes for auto manufacturers their tooling is impressive

  • @estebanquito545
    @estebanquito545 Před 2 lety

    cant believe these kind of programmes were broadcasted on public tv!

  • @8BitNaptime
    @8BitNaptime Před rokem

    I'd love one of those 1967 circuit boards filled with flat packs.

  • @the_eminent_Joshua_E_Hrouda

    Harry Sello looks so much like Tony Goldwyn (played Carl Bruner in Ghost (1990)) !!

  • @DavidMolnarProd1
    @DavidMolnarProd1 Před 13 lety +3

    I think the narrarator of the commercials was actor william schallert

  • @jvolstad
    @jvolstad Před 4 lety +4

    The mandatory white shirt. IBM would be proud.

  • @Elfdogable
    @Elfdogable Před 4 lety +4

    I envision Woz having watched this in his early years.

  • @sukantasutradhar6264
    @sukantasutradhar6264 Před 2 lety +1

    Nice knowledge video

  • @agdobleu
    @agdobleu Před 14 lety +2

    this is so interesting, really cool. Is this the Hall of Justice of the superfriends at 22:22 ? hahaha

  • @mazinger8000
    @mazinger8000 Před 13 lety +1

    hand made .........amazing!!

  • @bakuleshrane6232
    @bakuleshrane6232 Před 8 lety +1

    great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    in explained in depth

  • @johneygd
    @johneygd Před 7 lety +5

    Holy shit,they were really really ahead of it's time in 1967,i can't believe that many do say's that the 1st miccroprocessor was invented in 1971.

    • @mikecowen6507
      @mikecowen6507 Před 7 lety +4

      There are several technologies that have been used to build fast mainframes of that era (see emitter-coupled logic (ECL)). Better for a personal computer? Historically, none were suitable to be reduced into a single-chip microprocessor. Power consumption and cooling are HUGE factors. The NSA has no problem using enough power for a small town to power its systems; most of us can't afford that, much less the supporting infrastructure to support it.
      As to IBM's 4.77 MHz speed, even that was below the 8088's 5 MHz spec. Why? It had to do with deriving all clock sources from a single 14.31818 MHz clock, allowing it to be divided by 3 for the CPU, and by 4 for the 3.58 MHz colorburst signal for the composite color video monitor. They got cheap. The clone wars didn't make that mistake. Not for the trivial cost of a 2nd (or 3rd) clock source.
      Now, to be fair, in typical IBM fashion, they really had no idea what revolution they were about to unleash, so they kept the design conservative. This is also the same company that lost its market share for a product it invented. Twice.

    • @airthrow
      @airthrow Před 7 lety +1

      therealnightwriter I've been trying to track down any citation I can find for these claims of early computers in the high hundred of mhz range that were not made public. Do you know what book that was?

    • @ZakKohler
      @ZakKohler Před 6 lety

      MPU != IC

    • @demef758
      @demef758 Před 5 lety

      IBM also made the big mistake (with hindsight) of using commercial, off-the-shelf components to build the PC. This made copying it quite easy. IBM then spent a lot of years trying to hold off the clone makers, but ultimately the flood gates opened, and they had to leave the PC business that they started.

  • @kyledailey
    @kyledailey Před 3 lety +1

    *_Can the US still design the circuits and manufacture design, processes, personal/robotic processes?_*

  • @georgen9755
    @georgen9755 Před rokem

    son's mother and mother's son are educated enough to follow this video

  • @williamanderson6801
    @williamanderson6801 Před 9 lety +3

    13:52 "...the idea that you're going to build a tasty but inedible sandwich." HAHA fucking helarious

  • @Neceros
    @Neceros Před 3 lety +1

    I wish they would have showed the commercials.

  • @pauldow1648
    @pauldow1648 Před 11 měsíci

    The late 50s early 60s were spirited enthusiastic scientific adventure and study.

  • @estebanquito545
    @estebanquito545 Před 2 lety

    we had a stromberg carson TV made here in Argentina!

  • @Seydaschu
    @Seydaschu Před 8 lety +3

    Hmm... They made the Channel F, right? It's a bit older than the Atari 2600. It was the 1st home video game console with interchangeable game cartridges! I'm sure they're more famous for this IC tech now.

    • @brosephjames
      @brosephjames Před 3 lety

      Fairchild had a lot of subsidiary companies in lots of industries (Look up vintage Fairchild audio compressors highly sought after in the recording industry, used by The Beatles etc) . Their lasting legacy today is probably as the indirect grandfather company of Intel and AMD (through big engineer departures)

    • @paulgriffith9570
      @paulgriffith9570 Před 2 měsíci

      Yeah Fairchild made a few mistakes like Channel F, bipolar over CMOS, the F8 microprocessor but they had the fastest chips in the 100K ECL, FAST TTL and spawned Intel, AMD etc. Its sad that people these days don't know why its called Silicone Valley when everything now is a software startup.

  • @0MoTheG
    @0MoTheG Před 7 lety +2

    So all the capacitors have a common plate that is also the bulk of all the transistors?

    • @demef758
      @demef758 Před 5 lety +2

      No. The bottom "plates" could be isolated by a deep diffusion of oxide, or a deep diffusion of P or N material that would be reversed biased, effectively isolating the plate. They knew what they were doing. Some seriously smart people back then, led by Mr. Noyce, the driving force behind the innovation.

  • @GarrettBroadnax
    @GarrettBroadnax Před 8 lety +2

    I want that pamphlet or book at 18:00, but can't find it anywhere on the Internet. Does anyone have an idea of where I might find it?

    • @GarrettBroadnax
      @GarrettBroadnax Před 8 lety +1

      +ungratefulmetalpansy tried. UIUC had a version of one but not for purchase

    • @LouSaydus
      @LouSaydus Před 5 lety +1

      General Electrical Engineering with IC design descriptions and much much more
      www.rollanet.org/~n0klu/Ham_Radio/(eBook)%20Electronics%20-%20The%20Electrical%20Engineering%20Handbook.pdf
      IC Basics Primer
      learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/integrated-circuits/all.pdf
      The Legendary 555 timer
      www.jameco.com/Jameco/Products/ProdDS/2243840KitInstructions.pdf
      The first (of an excellent series) video PBS made about computer science basics
      czcams.com/video/O5nskjZ_GoI/video.html

  • @kskate91
    @kskate91 Před 14 lety +1

    Who owned Harris semiconductor? And why did Motorola stop producing discrete semiconductors? I like there rugged FETs.

  • @jeffreydrhodes
    @jeffreydrhodes Před 4 lety +1

    Will you be putting any videos of Edgar Codd?