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IP: on the history of the 8008 etc (interesting) Subwavelength Geometries: * 4:15PM, Wed May 15, 2002 in Gates B03
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 20:31:28 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: gep2 () terabites com Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 18:28:59 -0500 To: dave () farber net Cc: allison () stanford edu Subject: IP: SFO area Subwavelength Geometries: * 4:15PM, Wed May 15, 2002 in Gates B03 Lest anyone be misled by the following, please note for the record that the Intel 8008 preceded the 8080, and the 8008 was architected by Computer Terminal Corporation (later Datapoint Corporation), NOT Intel. Intel (among other companies who attempted it, only Intel and TI ever produced silicon and the prototype TI part was so electrically noisy that it only barely worked...) agreed to make the part on a special-order basis for Datapoint because Intel (who was a MEMORY company at the time) wanted Datapoint's memory business, and Datapoint was at the time the world's largest buyer of MOS memories. Intel was convinced that (other than limited dedicated-controller-apps like the 4004) there was no market for a general purpose microprocessor-on-a-chip. ;-) Datapoint wanted the part for use in the Datapoint 2200, which was the first self-contained general-purpose desktop microcomputer system. It included a 12 line by 80 column CRT display, integrated keyboard, dual digital cassette tape storage, switching regulator power supply (which was considered quite exotic at the time) and was provided with a cassette tape operating system, CTOS, as well as assembler, general purpose editor, a variety of communications/terminal emulators, and several high-level-language compilers for general purpose business-oriented data processing. [In the end, the Intel part was late enough and slow enough that Datapoint never actually used it, and signed the rights to it away to Intel in exchange for being relieved of the moral obligation of buying the part. Datapoint proceeded to continue producing the same architecture in the 2200 themselves using MSI and TTL parts. Intel meanwhile had found other interested customers, realized that there might actually be a market for a general purpose microcomputer-on-a-chip, and the rest as they say is history.] <---- Begin Forwarded Message ----> Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 15:49:29 -0400 Subject: IP: SFO area Subwavelength Geometries: * 4:15PM, Wed May 15, 2002 in Gates B03 From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> To: ip <ip-sub-1 () majordomo pobox com> Reply-To: farber () cis upenn edu ------ Forwarded Message From: allison () stanford edu Reply-To: ee380 () shasta stanford edu Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 11:48:55 -0700 (PDT) To: farber () cis upenn edu Subject: [CSL Colloq] Subwavelength Geometries: * 4:15PM, Wed May 15, 2002 in Gates B03 Computer Systems Laboratory Colloquium 4:15PM, Wednesday, May 15, 2002 NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B03 http://ee380.stanford.edu Topic: Subwavelength Geometries: Dealing with the Soaring Challenges of Lithography Masks Speaker: Stanley Mazor Numerical Technologies, Inc. About the talk: Stanley Mazor will speak about recent trends in advanced photomasks and lithography. One of the limitations to extending Gordon Moore's law of increasing semiconductor density is that the imaging elements are approaching the wavelength of light and that it is a challenge to create images of sub-wavelength dimensions. Resolution enhancement techniques and the use of advanced photo masks to improve device cost and performance will also be reviewed. About the speaker: Stanley Mazor is the Director of Customer Services at Numerical Technologies, Inc., a San Jose company which provides services in advanced photolithography. In 1969 Stan joined the then-startup Intel Corporation, where he developed architecture specifications for the industry's first microprocessors, including the Intel 4004 and 8080, for which he shares the fundamental design patents. Through 1984 Stan held a variety of positions within Intel including Applications Support Engineer for European Operations and supervisor of the company's microcomputer training development group.
From 1984 to 1988 Stan was Director of Customer Engineering
Services at Silicon Compiler Systems (SCS), where he developed application-specific ICs. In 1988 he joined Synopsys as Technical Training Manager. He is the author of the hardware design language textbook, "A Guide to VHDL", and has published more than 50 articles on the design and application of VLSI, including signal processing, instrumentation, security, and optimization. Stan has also taught courses at Stanford University and the University of Santa Clara; has been a guest lecturer in China, Finland, and Sweden; was elected to the Inventor's Hall of Fame; and has been awarded the Kyoto Prize, the PC Magazine lifetime achievement award, the Robert Brown--American Innovator Award, and the Robert Noyce Award presented by the Semiconductor Industries Association. Mr. Mazor enjoys sailing, cooking, and is an amateur architect. Contact information: Stan Mazor Numerical Technologies, Inc. 70 W. Plumeria Drive San Jose, CA 95134 408-273-4485 408-260-7100 smazor () numeritech com ------ End of Forwarded Message For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ . <---- End Forwarded Message ----> Gordon Peterson http://personal.terabites.com/ Support the Anti-SPAM Amendment! Join at http://www.cauce.org/ 12/19/98: Partisan Republicans scornfully ignore the voters they "represent". 12/09/00: the date the Republican Party took down democracy in America. ------ End of Forwarded Message For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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