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Acorn Computers
Acorn Computers Ltd. was a British computer company established in Cambridge, England, in 1978.
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Advanced Micro Devices
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets.
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Alan MacPherson
Alan H. MacPherson (August 10, 1934 - December 8, 2008, Laguna Beach, California, United States) was an American patent attorney who pioneered the "clean room" defense.
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ANADIGICS
ANADIGICS, Inc was a worldwide provider of semiconductor solutions to the broadband wireless and wireline communications markets.
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Andrew Grove
Andrew Stephen 'Andy' Grove (born András István Gróf; 2 September 193621 March 2016) was a Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, author and a pioneer in the semiconductor industry.
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Apollo Guidance Computer
The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was a digital computer produced for the Apollo program that was installed on board each Apollo Command Module (CM) and Lunar Module (LM).
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Arnold Orville Beckman
Arnold Orville Beckman (April 10, 1900 – May 18, 2004) was an American chemist, inventor, investor, and philanthropist.
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Arthur Rock
Arthur Rock (born August 19, 1926) is an American businessman and investor.
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Atari 2600
The Atari 2600 (or Atari Video Computer System before November 1982) is a home video game console from Atari, Inc. Released on September 11, 1977, it is credited with popularizing the use of microprocessor-based hardware and games contained on ROM cartridges, a format first used with the Fairchild Channel F in 1976.
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Bayan Lepas Free Industrial Zone
The Bayan Lepas Free Industrial Zone is a high-tech manufacturing area in Bayan Lepas, near the southeastern tip of Penang Island in Penang, Malaysia.
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BC548
The BC548 is a general-purpose NPN bipolar junction transistor commonly used in European and American electronic equipment.
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Bell Labs
Nokia Bell Labs (formerly named AT&T Bell Laboratories, Bell Telephone Laboratories and Bell Labs) is an American research and scientific development company, owned by Finnish company Nokia.
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Bernard A Yurash
Bernard A Yurash (February 17, 1921 – January 25, 2007) was a significant contributor to the creation of the first commercially viable CMOS integrated circuits by finding the sources of mobile sodium ions coming from the manufacturing process.
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Bipolar junction transistor
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Bit slicing
Bit slicing is a technique for constructing a processor from modules of processors of smaller bit width, for the purpose of increasing the word length; in theory to make an arbitrary n-bit CPU.
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Bob Widlar
Robert John (Bob) Widlar (pronounced wide-lar; November 30, 1937 – February 27, 1991) was an American electronics engineer and a designer of linear integrated circuits (ICs).
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Brazilian Silicon Valley
Brazilian Silicon Valley is a term commonly applied to the region of Campinas and in southern region this term is applied for Florianópolis city, Brazil because of its similarity to the 'original' Silicon Valley, located in California in the USA.
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Burlington, Iowa
Burlington is a city and the county seat of Des Moines County, Iowa, United States.
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Burroughs B1700
The Burroughs B1000 Series was a series of mainframe computers, built by the Burroughs Corporation, and originally introduced in the 1970s with continued software development until 1987.
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California Institute of Technology
The California Institute of Technology (abbreviated Caltech)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; other spellings such as.
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Calma
Calma Company, based in Sunnyvale, California, was, between 1965 and 1988, a vendor of digitizers and minicomputer-based graphics systems targeted at the cartographic and electronic, mechanical and architectural design markets.
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Camera
A camera is an optical instrument for recording or capturing images, which may be stored locally, transmitted to another location, or both.
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Carver Mead
Carver Andress Mead (born 1 May 1934) is an American scientist and engineer.
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CDC 6600
The CDC 6600 was the flagship of the 6000 series of mainframe computer systems manufactured by Control Data Corporation.
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Challenging the Chip
Challenging the Chip is a 2006 book on "labor rights and environmental justice in the global electronics industry" edited by Ted Smith, David A. Sonnenfeld, and David Naguib Pellow.
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Charge-coupled device
A charge-coupled device (CCD) is a device for the movement of electrical charge, usually from within the device to an area where the charge can be manipulated, for example conversion into a digital value.
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Charles E. Sporck
Charles E. Sporck (born November 15, 1927) is an American engineer and former company manager.
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Chih-Tang Sah
Chih-Tang (Tom) Sah (born in November 1932 in Beijing, China) is the Pittman Eminent Scholar and a Graduate Research Professor at the University of Florida, USA from 1988.
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Clipper architecture
The Clipper architecture is a 32-bit RISC-like instruction set architecture designed by Fairchild Semiconductor.
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CMOS
Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor, abbreviated as CMOS, is a technology for constructing integrated circuits.
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Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS, commonly pronounced "Cifius"), is an inter-agency committee of the United States Government that reviews the national security implications of foreign investments in U.S. companies or operations.
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Compact Software
Compact Software was the first commercially successful microwave computer-aided design (CAD) company.
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Company union
A company or "yellow" union is a worker organization which is dominated or influenced by an employer, and is therefore not an independent trade union.
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Computer
A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming.
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Computervision
Computervision, Inc. (CV) was an early pioneer in Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing (CAD/CAM).
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Consumer electronics
Consumer electronics or home electronics are electronic (analog or digital) equipments intended for everyday use, typically in private homes.
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Control Data Corporation
Control Data Corporation (CDC) was a mainframe and supercomputer firm.
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Corporate spin-off
A corporate spin-off, also known as a spin-out, or starburst, is a type of corporate action where a company "splits off" a section as a separate business.
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Cost-plus contract
A cost-plus contract, also termed a cost reimbursement contract, is a contract where a contractor is paid for all of its allowed expenses, plus additional payment to allow for a profit.
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Cray-1
The Cray-1 was a supercomputer designed, manufactured and marketed by Cray Research.
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Cumberland County, Maine
Cumberland County is a county in the state of Maine, United States.
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Cupertino Electric
Cupertino Electric is a privately owned electrical engineering and construction company headquartered in San Jose, California.
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Daniel Slotnick
Daniel Leonid Slotnick (1931–1985) was a mathematician and computer architect.
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Data General
Data General was one of the first minicomputer firms from the late 1960s.
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Data General Nova
The Data General Nova is a series of 16-bit minicomputers released by the American company Data General.
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Datacube Inc.
Datacube Inc. (1978–2005) was an image processing company that developed real-time hardware and software products for the industrial, medical, military and scientific markets.
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David Brewster (journalist)
David Clark Brewster (born September 26, 1939) is an American journalist and the founder, editor and publisher of the Seattle Weekly and the online Northwest "newspaper" Crosscut.com.
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Deal–Grove model
The Deal–Grove model mathematically describes the growth of an oxide layer on the surface of a material.
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December 1927
The following events occurred in December 1927.
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DeFreest Homestead
The DeFreest Homestead is a historic house and barn located in the Rensselaer Technology Park in North Greenbush, New York, United States.
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Denice Denton
Denice Dee Denton (August 27, 1959 – June 24, 2006) was an American professor of electrical engineering and academic administrator.
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Depletion-load NMOS logic
In integrated circuits, depletion-load NMOS is a form of digital logic family that uses only a single power supply voltage, unlike earlier nMOS logic families that needed more than one different power supply voltage.
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Diffusion transistor
A diffusion transistor is a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) formed by diffusing dopants into a semiconductor substrate.
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Digital photography
Digital photography is a form of photography that uses cameras containing arrays of electronic photodetectors to capture images focused by a lens, as opposed to an exposure on photographic film.
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Digital single-lens reflex camera
A digital single-lens reflex camera (also called digital SLR or DSLR) is a digital camera that combines the optics and the mechanisms of a single-lens reflex camera with a digital imaging sensor, as opposed to photographic film.
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Don Valentine
Donald T. "Don" Valentine (born June 26, 1932) is a venture capitalist who concentrates mainly on technology companies in the United States.
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Dov Frohman
Dov Frohman (Hebrew: דב פרוהמן, also Dov Frohman-Bentchkowsky; born March 28, 1939) is an Israeli electrical engineer and business executive.
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Dual in-line package
In microelectronics, a dual in-line package (DIP or DIL), or dual in-line pin package (DIPP) is an electronic component package with a rectangular housing and two parallel rows of electrical connecting pins.
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Early history of private equity
The early history of private equity relates to one of the major periods in the history of private equity and venture capital.
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Economy of Malaysia
The economy of Malaysia is the 4th largest in Southeast Asia, and is the 38th largest economy in the world.
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Edwin Turney
Edwin James Turney (March 26, 1929, Brooklyn, New York - October 15, 2008) is best known as one of the founders of Advanced Micro Devices serving as the Vice President of Sales and Administration from 1969 to 1974.
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Elizabeth Noyce
Elizabeth Noyce (October 7, 1930 – September 18, 1996) was an American philanthropist, and former wife of Fairchild Semiconductor general manager and a founder of Intel Corporation, Robert Noyce.
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Eugene F. Lally
Eugene F. Lally (August 14, 1934 – July 28, 2014) was American aerospace engineer.
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Eugene Kleiner
Eugene Kleiner (12 May 1923 – 20 November 2003) was an Austrian-born American engineer and venture capitalist.
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Fairchild
Fairchild may refer to.
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Fairchild Aircraft
Fairchild was an American aircraft and aerospace manufacturing company based at various times in Farmingdale, New York; Hagerstown, Maryland; and San Antonio, Texas.
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Fairchild Camera and Instrument
Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation was a company founded by Sherman Fairchild.
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Fairchild Channel F
The Fairchild Channel F is a home video game console released by Fairchild Semiconductor in November 1976 across North America at the retail price of $169.95.
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Fairchild F Videocarts
The Fairchild Channel F is a game console released by Fairchild Semiconductor in November 1976.
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Fairchild F8
The Fairchild F8 was an 8-bit microprocessor system created by Fairchild Semiconductor announced in 1974, shipped in 1975.
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Fürstenfeldbruck
Fürstenfeldbruck is a town in Bavaria, Germany, located 32 kilometres west of Munich.
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FCS
FCS may refer to.
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Federico Faggin
Federico Faggin (born 1 December 1941), is an Italian physicist, inventor and entrepreneur, widely known for designing the first commercial microprocessor.
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Four-phase logic
Four-phase logic is a type of, and design methodology for dynamic logic.
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Four-Phase Systems
Four-Phase Systems was a computer company, founded by Lee Boysel and others, which built one of the earliest computers using semiconductor main memory and LSI MOS logic.
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Frank Wanlass
Dr.
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Fred Hoar
Frederick M. Hoar (1926 – 2 January 2004) was a high-profile Silicon Valley PR and marketing professional.
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G. Steven Rowe
G.
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Gateway AnyKey
The Gateway AnyKey is a programmable PC keyboard that was sold with desktop computers from the Gateway 2000 company roughly from 1990 to 1995.
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General Magic
General Magic was a company cofounded by Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld and Marc Porat that developed a new kind of handheld communications device they called a "personal intelligent communicator", which was a PDA precursor that stressed communications.
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Germanium
Germanium is a chemical element with symbol Ge and atomic number 32.
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Gil Amelio
Gilbert Frank Amelio (born March 1, 1943) is an American technology executive.
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Gordon Moore
Gordon Earle Moore (born January 3, 1929) is an American businessman, engineer, co-founder and chairman emeritus of Intel Corporation, and the author of Moore's law.
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Gunning transceiver logic
Gunning transceiver logic or GTL is a type of logic signaling used to drive electronic backplane buses.
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Henry Earl Singleton
Henry Earl Singleton (November 27, 1916 – August 31, 1999) was an American electrical engineer, business executive, and rancher/land owner.
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Hero Company Theory
The Hero Company Theory, based on the work of economist Steven Klepper (1949 – 2013), who studied the phenomenon of economic agglomeration in Detroit during the automobile boom and Silicon Valley during the semiconductor boom.
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Hewlett-Packard
The Hewlett-Packard Company (commonly referred to as HP) or shortened to Hewlett-Packard was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
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History of computing hardware
The history of computing hardware covers the developments from early simple devices to aid calculation to modern day computers.
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History of computing hardware (1960s–present)
The history of computing hardware starting at 1960 is marked by the conversion from vacuum tube to solid-state devices such as the transistor and later the integrated circuit.
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History of electromagnetic theory
The history of electromagnetic theory begins with ancient measures to understand atmospheric electricity, in particular lightning.
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History of photography
The history of photography has roots in remote antiquity with the discovery of two critical principles, that of the camera obscura image projection and the fact that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light, as discovered by observation.
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History of private equity and venture capital
The history of private equity and venture capital and the development of these asset classes has occurred through a series of boom and bust cycles since the middle of the 20th century.
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History of Santa Clara County, California
Santa Clara County, California, is one of California's original counties, with prior habitation dating from prehistory to the Alta California period.
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History of Stanford University
This is the history of Stanford University.
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History of supercomputing
The history of supercomputing goes back to the early 1920s in the United States with the IBM tabulators at Columbia University and a series of computers at Control Data Corporation (CDC), designed by Seymour Cray to use innovative designs and parallelism to achieve superior computational peak performance.
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History of the camera
The history of the camera can be traced much further back than the introduction of photography.
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History of the transistor
A transistor is a semiconductor device with at least three terminals for connection to an electric circuit.
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History of video games
The history of video games goes as far back as the early 1950s, when academic computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations as part of their research.
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HLH Orion
The Orion was a series of 32-bit super-minicomputers designed and produced in the 1980s by High Level Hardware Limited (HLH), a company based in Oxford, UK.
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ILLIAC IV
The ILLIAC IV was the first massively parallel computer.
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Index of electrical engineering articles
This is an alphabetical list of articles pertaining specifically to electrical and electronics engineering.
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Influence of the IBM PC on the personal computer market
Following the introduction of the IBM Personal Computer, or IBM PC, many other personal computer architectures became extinct within just a few years.
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Innovation
Innovation can be defined simply as a "new idea, device or method".
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Integrated circuit
An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit (also referred to as an IC, a chip, or a microchip) is a set of electronic circuits on one small flat piece (or "chip") of semiconductor material, normally silicon.
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Intel
Intel Corporation (stylized as intel) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, in the Silicon Valley.
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Intel 4004
The Intel 4004 is a 4-bit central processing unit (CPU) released by Intel Corporation in 1971.
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IntelliMax
IntelliMax can refer to one of several things.
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Invention of the integrated circuit
The idea of integrating electronic circuits into a single device was born when the German physicist and engineer developed and patented the first known integrated transistor amplifier in 1949 and the British radio engineer Geoffrey Dummer proposed to integrate a variety of standard electronic components in a monolithic semiconductor crystal in 1952.
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IRI Achievement Award
The IRI Achievement Award, established by the Industrial Research Institute (IRI) in 1973, is awarded "to honor outstanding accomplishment in individual creativity and innovation that contributes broadly to the development of industry and to the benefit of society." The recipient is first nominated by an IRI member organization for his or her invention, innovation, or process improvement, and then voted on by a nine-member Awards Committee, led by the immediate past-chairman of IRI's Board of Directors.
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Jack Gifford
John "Jack" F. Gifford (January 11, 1941 – January 11, 2009) was an American engineer and businessman best known as a founder and former CEO, President and Chairman of the Board of Maxim Integrated Products, an analog semi-conductor company, located in San Jose, California.
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James M. Early
James M. Early (July 25, 1922 – January 12, 2004) was an American engineer, best known for his work on transistors and charge-coupled device imagers.
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Jay Last
Jay T. Last (born October 18, 1929) is a physicist, silicon pioneer, and member of the so-called "traitorous eight" that founded Silicon Valley.
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Jayshree Ullal
Jayshree V. Ullal (born March 27, 1961) is an American billionaire businesswoman, president and CEO of Arista Networks, a cloud networking company responsible for the deployment of 10/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet networking in the data center.
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Jean Hoerni
Jean Amédée Hoerni (September 26, 1924 – January 12, 1997) was a silicon transistor pioneer and a member of the 'traitorous eight'.
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Jeff Henley
Jeffrey O. "Jeff" Henley is an American businessman and the vice chairman of Oracle Corporation, having previously served as chairman.
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Jerry Lawson (engineer)
Gerald Anderson "Jerry" Lawson (December 1, 1940 – April 9, 2011) was an American electronic engineer, and one of the few African-American engineers in the industry at that time.
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Jerry Sanders (businessman)
Walter Jeremiah Sanders III (born September 12, 1936) is an American businessman and is a co-founder and was a long-time CEO of the American semiconductor manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
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John B. Moore (engineer)
John Barratt Moore, PhD, FAA, FIEAust, FIEEE, FTSE (1941–2013) was an Australian engineer specialising in signal processing and control systems.
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Julius Blank
Julius Blank (June 2, 1925 – September 17, 2011) was a semiconductor pioneer.
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July 1959
The following events occurred in July 1959.
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July 1968
The following events occurred in July 1968.
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Kazuo Inamori
is a Japanese philanthropist, entrepreneur and the founder of Kyocera and KDDI.
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Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.
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Kodak DCS
The Kodak Digital Camera System is a series of digital single-lens reflex cameras and digital camera backs that were released by Kodak in the 1990s and 2000s, and discontinued in 2005.
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Lee Boysel
Lee Boysel is an American engineer, and entrepreneur.
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Les Besser
Les Besser (born 1936) is an American electronics engineer, an expert in microwave technology.
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Leslie L. Vadász
Leslie L. Vadász (born 1936 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian-American engineer and manager, one of the founding members of Intel Corporation.
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LGM-30 Minuteman
The LGM-30 Minuteman is a U.S. land-based intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), in service with the Air Force Global Strike Command.
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Light-emitting diode
A light-emitting diode (LED) is a two-lead semiconductor light source.
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Linkabit
Linkabit was a technology company founded in 1968 by Irwin M. Jacobs, Andrew Viterbi and Leonard Kleinrock.
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List of 4000 series integrated circuits
List of the CMOS 4000 series.
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List of agnostics
Listed here are persons who have identified themselves as theologically agnostic.
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List of baseball video games
The following is a list of baseball video games.
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List of children of clergy
List of noted children of clergy is a list concerned with individuals whose status as a child of a cleric is important, preferably critical, to their fame or significance.
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List of companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
This is a list of current and former companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area, broken down by type of business.
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List of companies founded by MIT alumni
This is a list of companies founded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni, including attendees who enrolled in degree-programs at MIT but did not eventually graduate.
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List of companies founded by Stanford University alumni
This is a list of companies founded by Stanford University alumni, including attendees who enrolled in degree-programs at Stanford but did not eventually graduate.
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List of companies founded by UC Berkeley alumni
This is a list of companies founded by University of California, Berkeley alumni, including attendees who enrolled in degree-programs at Berkeley but did not eventually graduate.
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List of companies of the United States by state
This is a list of companies in the United States; by state where their headquarters is located.
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List of electrical engineers
This is a list of electrical engineers (by no means exhaustive), people who have made notable contributions to electrical engineering or computer engineering.
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List of home video game consoles
This is a list of home video game consoles in chronological order, which includes the very first home video game consoles ever created, such as first generation Pong consoles, from the first ever cartridge console Odyssey, ranging from the major video game companies such as Magnavox, Atari, Nintendo, Sega, NEC, 3DO, SNK, Sony, Microsoft to secondary market consoles.
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List of integrated circuit manufacturers
The following is an incomplete list of notable integrated circuit (i.e. microchip) manufacturers.
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List of Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
This list of Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni includes students who studied as undergraduates or graduate students at MIT's School of Engineering; School of Science; MIT Sloan School of Management; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; School of Architecture and Planning; or Whitaker College of Health Sciences.
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List of microprocessors
This is a list of microprocessors.
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List of New York University alumni
New York University (NYU) is one of the world's premier residential research and teaching institutions.
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List of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute people
This is a list of people associated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, including Presidents, Institute leaders, Trustees, Alumni, Professors and Researchers.
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List of S&P 400 companies
This is a list of companies having stocks that are included in the S&P 400 stock market index.
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List of semiconductor fabrication plants
This is a list of semiconductor fabrication plants: A semiconductor fabrication plant is where integrated circuits (ICs), also known as microchips, are made.
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List of Stanford University people
This page lists the members of Stanford University, including students, alumni, faculty and academic affiliates associated.
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List of Superfund sites in California
This is a list of Superfund sites in California designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law.
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List of University of Michigan alumni
There are more than 500,000 living alumni of the University of Michigan.
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List of video game publishers
This is a list of video game publisher companies.
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LM358
The LM358 is a low power dual operational amplifier integrated circuit originally introduced by National Semiconductor.
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Logic family
In computer engineering, a logic family may refer to one of two related concepts.
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Low-voltage differential signaling
Low-voltage differential signaling, or LVDS, also known as TIA/EIA-644, is a technical standard that specifies electrical characteristics of a differential, serial communications protocol.
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Magnavox Odyssey
The Magnavox Odyssey is the first commercial home video game console.
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Maine
Maine is a U.S. state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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Malaysia–United States relations
Malaysia–United States relations are bilateral ties between the two countries.
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Martin Atalla
Martin "John" M. Atalla (4 August 1924 – 30 December 2009) was an engineer and entrepreneur in the field of semiconductor technology and computer data security.
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Metro Cebu
Metropolitan Cebu, or simply Metro Cebu, (Kaulohang Sugbo, Kalakhang Cebu), is the main urban center of the province of Cebu in the Philippines.
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Microprocessor
A microprocessor is a computer processor that incorporates the functions of a central processing unit on a single integrated circuit (IC), or at most a few integrated circuits.
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Microprocessor Chronicles
The Microprocessor Chronicles is a documentary by filmmaker Rob Walker.
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Microprocessor chronology
The first microprocessors were manufactured in the 1970s.
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Mike Markkula
Armas Clifford "Mike" Markkula Jr. (born February 11, 1942) is an American businessman and investor.
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Monolithic Memories
Monolithic Memories, Inc. (MMI) produced bipolar PROMs, programmable logic devices, and logic circuits (including 7400 series TTL).
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Moore's law
Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years.
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MOS-controlled thyristor
An MOS-controlled thyristor (MCT) is a voltage-controlled fully controllable thyristor.
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Mountain View, California
Mountain View is a city located in Santa Clara County, California, United States, named for its views of the Santa Cruz Mountains.
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National Semiconductor
National Semiconductor was an American semiconductor manufacturer which specialized in analog devices and subsystems, formerly with headquarters in Santa Clara, California, United States.
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NOR gate
The NOR gate is a digital logic gate that implements logical NOR - it behaves according to the truth table to the right.
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ON Semiconductor
ON Semiconductor is a Fortune 500 semiconductors supplier company.
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Operational amplifier
An operational amplifier (often op-amp or opamp) is a DC-coupled high-gain electronic voltage amplifier with a differential input and, usually, a single-ended output.
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Paul Suni
Paul Suni (born 1956) is a Silicon Valley technologist, engineer, semiconductor device physicist and independent researcher.
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PayPal Mafia
"PayPal Mafia" is a term used to indicate a group of former PayPal employees and founders who have since founded and developed additional technology companies such as Tesla Motors, LinkedIn, Palantir Technologies, SpaceX, YouTube, Yelp, and Yammer.
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Pierre Lamond
Pierre R Lamond (born September 12, 1931) is a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, who has specialised in semiconductors, systems and cleantech.
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Planar process
The planar process is a manufacturing process used in the semiconductor industry to build individual components of a transistor, and in turn, connect those transistors together.
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Power supply unit (computer)
A power supply unit (or PSU) converts mains AC to low-voltage regulated DC power for the internal components of a computer.
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Powermat Technologies
Powermat Technologies Ltd.
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Precision Monolithics
Precision Monolithics, Inc. also known as PMI, was an American company based in Santa Clara, California, that developed and produced mixed signal and linear integrated circuits (ICs).
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Private equity
Private equity typically refers to investment funds organized as limited partnerships that are not publicly traded and whose investors are typically large institutional investors, university endowments, or wealthy individuals.
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Ray Zinn
Raymond D. "Ray" Zinn (born in El Centro, California, US, on September 24, 1937) is an inventor, entrepreneur and published author.
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Reading Works
Western Electric's Reading Works in Berks County, Pennsylvania was a manufacturer of integrated circuit and optoelectronic equipment for communication and computing.
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or RPI, is a private research university and space-grant institution located in Troy, New York, with two additional campuses in Hartford and Groton, Connecticut.
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Reticon
The Reticon Corporation was incorporated in January 1971 in Sunnyvale CA.
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Reuben Gaylord
Reuben Gaylord (April 28, 1812 – January 10, 1880) was the recognized leader of the missionary pioneers in the Nebraska Territory, and has been called the "father of Congregationalism in Nebraska."Punchard, G. (1865) "Congregationalism in Nebraska," History of Congregationalism from about A.D. 250 to the Present Time. Hurd and Houghton.
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Rich Page
Richard Page is an alumnus of Apple Inc.
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Richard O. Duda
Richard O. Duda is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at San Jose State University renowned for his work on sound localization and pattern recognition.
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Robert Noyce
Robert Norton Noyce (December 12, 1927 – June 3, 1990), nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley," was an American physicist who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968.
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ROM cartridge
A ROM cartridge, sometimes referred to simply as a cartridge or cart, is a removable enclosure containing ROM designed to be connected to a consumer electronics device such as a home computer, video game console and to a lesser extent, electronic musical instruments.
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Santa Clara County, California
Santa Clara County, officially the County of Santa Clara, is California's 6th most populous county, with a population was 1,781,642, as of the 2010 census.
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Schlumberger
Schlumberger Limited is the world's largest oilfield services company.
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Second generation of video game consoles
The second generation of computer and video games began in 1976 with the release of the Fairchild Channel F. It coincided with and was partly fuelled by the golden age of arcade video games, a peak era of popularity and innovation for the medium.
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Self-aligned gate
In electronics, a self-aligned gate is a transistor manufacturing feature whereby a refractory gate electrode region of a MOSFET transistor is used as a mask for the doping of the source and drain regions.
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Semiconductor Industry Association
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) is a trade association and lobbying group founded in 1977 that represents the United States semiconductor industry.
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Sheldon Roberts
C.
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Sherman Fairchild
Sherman Mills Fairchild (April 7, 1896 – March 28, 1971) was an American businessman, investor and inventor.
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Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory
Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory was a pioneering semiconductor developer founded by renowned inventor William Shockley as a division of Beckman Instruments, Inc., in 1956.
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Signetics
Signetics was an American electronics manufacturer specifically established to make integrated circuits.
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Silicon Gorge
The Silicon Gorge refers to the numerous high-tech and research companies, in the triangle of Bristol, Swindon and Gloucester, in England.
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Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley (abbreviated as SV) is a region in the southern San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California, referring to the Santa Clara Valley, which serves as the global center for high technology, venture capital, innovation, and social media.
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Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
The Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC) is a San Jose, California-based research and advocacy group that promotes safe environmental practices in the high tech industry.
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South Portland, Maine
South Portland is a city in Cumberland County, Maine, United States, and is the fourth-largest city in the state, incorporated in 1898.
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Spirit DataCine
Spirit DataCine is a telecine and/or a motion picture film scanner.
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Stanley Mazor
Stanley Mazor is an American microelectronics engineer who was born on 22 October 1941 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Stav Prodromou
Stavro Evangelo "Stav" Prodromou (Σταύρο Εύαγγελο Προδρομου) (born May 30, 1944) is a Greek American businessman, and the founder and former chief executive officer of Poqet Computer Corporation.
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Surface-mount technology
Surface-mount technology (SMT) is a method for producing electronic circuits in which the components are mounted or placed directly onto the surface of printed circuit boards (PCBs).
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Switched-mode power supply
A switched-mode power supply (switching-mode power supply, switch-mode power supply, switched power supply, SMPS, or switcher) is an electronic power supply that incorporates a switching regulator to convert electrical power efficiently.
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Telecom Corridor Genealogy Project
The Telecom Corridor Genealogy Project is the result of the collaboration of the and the (CITM) in the at the, with the purpose of creating not only a multidimensional diagram of the relationship of companies and their employees in the high tech sector, but also to enable professionals in the tech sector to interact in a social networking framework that has certain advantages over general websites such as.
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Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) is an American technology company that designs and manufactures semiconductors and various integrated circuits, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globally.
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Texas Instruments TMS9900
Introduced in June 1976, the TMS9900 was one of the first commercially available, single-chip 16-bit microprocessors.
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Timeline of computing 1950–79
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Timeline of DOS operating systems
This article presents a timeline of events in the history of x86 DOS operating systems from 1973 to 2016.
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Timeline of Intel
This is a timeline of Intel, one of the world's largest semiconductor chip makers.
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Timeline of photography technology
The following list comprises significant milestones in the development of photography technology.
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Timeline of the San Francisco Bay Area
This is a timeline of the San Francisco Bay Area in California, events in the nine counties that border on the San Francisco Bay, and the bay itself.
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TO-263
The D2PAK or DDPAK, standardized as TO-263, refers to a semiconductor package type intended for surface mounting on circuit boards.
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Tokyo Electron
, or TEL, is a Japanese electronics and semiconductor company headquartered in Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
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Tower Semiconductor
Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (TowerJazz) and its fully owned U.S. subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor, and TowerJazz Texas operate collectively under the brand name TowerJazz.
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Traitorous eight
The traitorous eight was a group of eight employees who left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in 1957 to found Fairchild Semiconductor.
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Transistor
A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electronic signals and electrical power.
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Transistor–transistor logic
Transistor–transistor logic (TTL) is a logic family built from bipolar junction transistors.
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Trichloroethylene
The chemical compound trichloroethylene is a halocarbon commonly used as an industrial solvent.
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Typesetting
Typesetting is the composition of text by means of arranging physical typesDictionary.com Unabridged.
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Umtech
Umtech Incorporated., also known as the VideoBrain Computer Company, was an early entrant in the personal computer market that developed, manufactured, and marketed the first computer, VideoBrain, sold in department stores.
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Utah Technology Council
The Utah Technology Council is a Utah-based non profit organization that serves as a business resource for life science and high-tech companies.
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Venture capital
Venture capital (VC) is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth (in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, or both).
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Victor Grinich
Victor Henry Grinich (November 26, 1924 – November 4, 2000) was a pioneer in the semiconductor industry and a member of the "traitorous eight" that founded Silicon Valley.
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VideoBrain Family Computer
The VideoBrain Family Computer (model 101) (not to be confused with Nintendo’s Family Computer, or Famicom, known as the Nintendo Entertainment System or NES outside of Japan) is an 8-bit home computer manufactured by Umtech Incorporated, starting in 1977.
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VLSI Technology
VLSI Technology, Inc., was a company which designed and manufactured custom and semi-custom Integrated circuits (ICs).
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Wilfred Corrigan
Wilfred J. Corrigan is a British engineer and entrepreneur, known for founding and running LSI Logic Corp.
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William N. Carrico Jr.
William "Bill" N. Carrico Jr. (born 1949 or 1950) is a computer scientist and has founded several technology companies in the Silicon Valley area.
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William Shockley
William Bradford Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American physicist and inventor.
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Workday, Inc.
Workday, Inc. is an on‑demand (cloud-based) financial management and human capital management software vendor.
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Xsens
Xsens Technologies B.V. (or Xsens) is a supplier of 3D motion capture products based upon miniature MEMS inertial sensor technology.
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Ze'ev Drori
Ze'ev Drori (זאב דרורי; born in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli-born American technology entrepreneur currently residing in California.
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Zilog Z80
The Z80 CPU is an 8-bit based microprocessor.
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1960s
The 1960s (pronounced "nineteen-sixties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on 1 January 1960, and ended on 31 December 1969.
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1976 in video gaming
1976 has several new titles such as Road Race, Night Driver and Heavyweight Champ.
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555 timer IC
The 555 timer IC is an integrated circuit (chip) used in a variety of timer, pulse generation, and oscillator applications.
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7400 series
The 7400 series of transistor–transistor logic (TTL) integrated circuits are the most popular family of TTL integrated circuit logic.
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References
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