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When Is a Microprocessor Not a Microprocessor? the Industrial Construction of Semiconductor Innovation I
Ross Bassett When is a Microprocessor not a Microprocessor? The Industrial Construction of Semiconductor Innovation I In the early 1990s an integrated circuit first made in 1969 and thus ante dating by two years the chip typically seen as the first microprocessor (Intel's 4004), became a microprocessor for the first time. The stimulus for this piece ofindustrial alchemy was a patent fight. A microprocessor patent had been issued to Texas Instruments, and companies faced with patent infringement lawsuits were looking for prior art with which to challenge it. 2 This old integrated circuit, but new microprocessor, was the ALl, designed by Lee Boysel and used in computers built by his start-up, Four-Phase Systems, established in 1968. In its 1990s reincarnation a demonstration system was built showing that the ALI could have oper ated according to the classic microprocessor model, with ROM (Read Only Memory), RAM (Random Access Memory), and I/O (Input/ Output) forming a basic computer. The operative words here are could have, for it was never used in that configuration during its normal life time. Instead it was used as one-third of a 24-bit CPU (Central Processing Unit) for a series ofcomputers built by Four-Phase.3 Examining the ALl through the lenses of the history of technology and business history puts Intel's microprocessor work into a different per spective. The differences between Four-Phase's and Intel's work were industrially constructed; they owed much to the different industries each saw itselfin.4 While putting a substantial part ofa central processing unit on a chip was not a discrete invention for Four-Phase or the computer industry, it was in the semiconductor industry. -
The HP Garage—The Birthplace of Silicon Valley 367 Addison Avenue, Palo Alto, California
Brochure A home for innovation The HP Garage—the Birthplace of Silicon Valley 367 Addison Avenue, Palo Alto, California HP Corporate Archives Brochure A home for innovation Tucked away on a quiet, tree-lined residential street near Stanford University, the HP Garage stands today as the enduring symbol of innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit. It was in this humble 12x18-foot building that college friends Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard first pursued the dream of a company of their own. Guided by an unwavering desire to develop innovative and useful products, the two men went on to blaze a trail at the forefront of the electronics revolution. The history of the HP Garage The HP Garage in 1939 (top) and The garage stands behind a two-story Shingle restored in 2005 (bottom). Style home built for Dr. John C. Spencer about 1905. The exact construction date of the garage is unknown, but while there is no evidence of its presence on insurance maps dated 1908, by 1924 it is clearly denoted on updated documents as a private garage. In 1938, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard decided to “make a run for it” in business. Dave left his job at General Electric in Schenectady, New York, and returned to Palo Alto while Bill scouted rentals. The garage was dedicated as the Birthplace of Silicon Valley in 1989, and HP acquired the He found one perfect for their needs on Addison property in 2000. HP is proud to have worked Avenue. Chosen specifically because of a garage closely with the City of Palo Alto to return the he and Dave could use as their workshop, the house, garage, and shed to conditions much property also offered a three-room, ground- as they were in 1939. -
Delccm's Silent Science Loveland in Perspective from the Chairman's Desk
Delccm's Silent Science Loveland in perspective from the chairman's desk ITHIK A FEW DAYS we will issue our annual report Another primary objective in 1965 is to achieve a substan . to stockholders covering operations for fiscal 1964. tial increase in our over·all volume of business. To do this, W It was a good year for the company, with sales rising we are going to have to increase the flow of new and im 8 percent to a level of $124.9 million, and incoming orders proved products from our laboratories, and get these prod totaling $130.4, million, also up 8 percent over last year. The ucts into production with greater speed and efficiency than profit picture improved considerably over 1963, with a net ever before. Moreover, we expect our field sales people to do after taxes of $9.4 million, an increase of 29 percent. a more effective job of expanding existing markets for our We were especially gratified at the improvement in our products and tapping new markets, as well. after-tax profit margin from 6.3 cents per sales dollar in 1963 During this next year we will plat'e increasing emphasis to 7.5 cents in 1964. This is largely the result of your day-to on diversification. With the slowup in defense spending and day efforts to reduce costs and do a more effective, produc the expectation that the gOYernment will continue to curtail tive job. or modi£} many at its pro~rams, we are working hard to As you know, we spend a great deal of time talking about broaden our base and expand our technolot\1' into new fields. -
Timeline of Computer History
Timeline of Computer History By Year By Category Search AI & Robotics (55) Computers (145)(145) Graphics & Games (48) Memory & Storage (61) Networking & The Popular Culture (50) Software & Languages (60) Bell Laboratories scientist 1937 George Stibitz uses relays for a Hewlett-Packard is founded demonstration adder 1939 Hewlett and Packard in their garage workshop “Model K” Adder David Packard and Bill Hewlett found their company in a Alto, California garage. Their first product, the HP 200A A Called the “Model K” Adder because he built it on his Oscillator, rapidly became a popular piece of test equipm “Kitchen” table, this simple demonstration circuit provides for engineers. Walt Disney Pictures ordered eight of the 2 proof of concept for applying Boolean logic to the design of model to test recording equipment and speaker systems computers, resulting in construction of the relay-based Model the 12 specially equipped theatres that showed the movie I Complex Calculator in 1939. That same year in Germany, “Fantasia” in 1940. engineer Konrad Zuse built his Z2 computer, also using telephone company relays. The Complex Number Calculat 1940 Konrad Zuse finishes the Z3 (CNC) is completed Computer 1941 The Zuse Z3 Computer The Z3, an early computer built by German engineer Konrad Zuse working in complete isolation from developments elsewhere, uses 2,300 relays, performs floating point binary arithmetic, and has a 22-bit word length. The Z3 was used for aerodynamic calculations but was destroyed in a bombing raid on Berlin in late 1943. Zuse later supervised a reconstruction of the Z3 in the 1960s, which is currently on Operator at Complex Number Calculator (CNC) display at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. -
(February 2 , 2015) If You Know Someone Who You Think Would
(February 2nd, 2015) If you know someone who you think would benefit from being an Insider, feel free to forward this PDF to them so they can sign up here. Quick Tips for our Insider friends! Hey Insiders, It’s the 100th newsletter!! I’ve been producing these newsletters since March 2011 – wow! To celebrate this milestone, I’ve put together some cool stuff for you: A Pluralsight giveaway. The first 100 people to respond to the newsletter email asking for a Pluralsight code will get 30-days of access to all 120+ hours of SQLskills online training for free. No catches, no credit cards. Go! My top-ten books of all time as well as my regular book review 100 SQL Server (and career) hints, tips, and tricks from the SQLskills team in my Paul’s Ponderings section. And the usual demo video, by me for a change. This newsletter is *looooong* this time! Grab a cup of coffee and settle in for a great ride. We’ve done eleven remote and in-person user group presentations this year already, to a combined audience of more than 1,100 people in the SQL community, and Glenn’s presenting remotely in Israel as this newsletter is hitting your inbox. Go community! I recently won the “Person You’d Most Like to be Mentored By” community award in the annual Redgate Tribal Awards. Thanks! To celebrate, I’m offering to mentor 3 men and 3 women through March and April. See this post for how to enter to be considered. I made it to the fantastic Living Computer Museum in Seattle over the weekend, which has a ton of cool old computers, many from DEC where I worked before Microsoft. -
Silicon Valley's Hi-Tech Heritage: Apple Park Visitor Center And
Silicon Valley’s Hi-Tech Heritage: Apple Park Visitor Center and Three Great Museums Tell the Computer and Technology Story By Lee Foster Author’s Note: This article “Silicon Valley’s Hi-Tech Heritage: Apple Park Visitor Center and Three Great Museums Tell the Computer and Technology Story” is a chapter in my new book/ebook Northern California History Travel Adventures: 35 Suggested Trips. The subject is also covered in my book/ebook Northern California Travel: The Best Options. That book is available in English as a book/ebook and also as an ebook in Chinese. Several of my books on California can be seen on my Amazon Author Page. In Brief In California’s Silicon Valley, you can learn about the computer and technology revolution that is affecting the world today. For instance, the story comes alive at the new Apple Park Visitor Center in Cupertino. In addition you can visit three great museums located, appropriately, in this Northern California epicenter of innovation. These high-tech revolutions have altered the face of San Jose and the Silicon Valley. You find the area, which is 30-50 miles south of San Francisco. It stretches along the western and southern edge of San Francisco Bay. My Osborne Computer, 1980, a copy of which can be seen at the Computer History Museum Originally a bucolic ranching region, San Jose began as a small pueblo and Spanish mission in the 18th century. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the valley developed as one of the most important fruit-growing areas in the United States. -
Everything Matters
Everything intel.com/go/responsibility Matters Global Citizenship Report 2003 Contents Executive Summary 3 Everything Adds Up Corporate Performance 4 Organizational Profile 6 Everywhere Matters 8 Stakeholder Relationships 10 Performance Summary 11 Goals & Targets 12 Ethics & Compliance 13 Economic Performance Environment, Health & Safety 14 Every Effort Contributes 16 Performance Indicators 18 Inspections & Compliance 19 Workplace Health & Safety 20 Environmental Footprint 22 Product Ecology 23 EHS Around the World Social Programs & Performance 24 Everyone Counts 26 Workplace Environment 31 Everyone Has a Say 32 Diversity 34 Education 36 Technology in the Community 37 Contributing to the Community 38 External Recognition 39 Intel: 35 Years of Innovation GRI Content Table Section # GRI Section Intel Report Reference Page # 1.1 Vision & Strategy Executive Summary 3 1.2 CEO Statement Executive Summary 3 2.1– 2.9 Organizational Profile Organizational Profile, Stakeholder Relationships 4–9 2.10– 2.16 Report Scope Report Scope & Profile 2 2.17– 2.22 Report Profile Report Scope & Profile 2 3.1– 3.8 Structure & Governance Ethics & Compliance 12 3.9– 3.12 Stakeholder Engagement Stakeholder Relationships 8–9 3.13– 3.20 Overarching Policies & Management Systems Ethics & Compliance, For More Information 12, 40 4.1 GRI Content Index GRI Content Table 2 Performance Summary 2003 Performance, 2004 Goals & Targets 10–11 5.0 Economic Performance Indicators Economic Performance 13 5.0 Environmental Performance Indicators Environment, Health & Safety 14– 23 5.0 Social Performance Indicators Social Programs & Performance 24–37 Report Scope and Profile: This report, addressing Intel’s worldwide operations, was published in May 2004. The report contains data from 2001 through 2003. -
Electronics – William (Bill) Hewlett
By Les Simmonds Electronics – William (Bill) Hewlett This new series of articles on elec- The HP 200 series low distortion high quality and long product life tronics will place emphasis on the resistance-capacitance audio os- possible with electronic equip- second word in the name of this cillator directly descended from ment. magazine "Electronics". HP co-founder Bill Hewlett’s mas- ters degree thesis at Stanford Hewlett’s oscillator used a reso- The electronics subjects we will University in 1939. It was HP's nant RC circuit originated by Max cover will include security elec- first product, manufactured in Wien which was developed in tronics and general electronics, 1939 and in various shapes and 1891 (no typo’s here either) (do both analogue and digital, old and sizes it lasted in the HP product you tech heads remember the new technologies, electronics range for nearly 50 years, yes 50 Wien Bridge?) In 1891 Wien had books, etc. We will also cover years! (Current electronic design- no source of electronic gain so he some of the interesting past and ers and manufacturers please couldn't readily get anything to present electronics industry char- note: The number 50 is not a oscillate. Wien went on to de- acters and equipment. We will typo). velop a network for AC bridge keep it simple, interesting and fun measurements. because, "If it isn't fun it ain’t This machine is real electronics worth doing". (George Thorogood history. It provided a direction In 1939 Hewlett saw that Wien's - R&B Guitarist 1978) methods and standards that have network, combined with suitable been reflected in HP products to electronic gain, offered advan- When I first discussed this series this day. -
Computer Architectures an Overview
Computer Architectures An Overview PDF generated using the open source mwlib toolkit. See http://code.pediapress.com/ for more information. PDF generated at: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:35:32 UTC Contents Articles Microarchitecture 1 x86 7 PowerPC 23 IBM POWER 33 MIPS architecture 39 SPARC 57 ARM architecture 65 DEC Alpha 80 AlphaStation 92 AlphaServer 95 Very long instruction word 103 Instruction-level parallelism 107 Explicitly parallel instruction computing 108 References Article Sources and Contributors 111 Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors 113 Article Licenses License 114 Microarchitecture 1 Microarchitecture In computer engineering, microarchitecture (sometimes abbreviated to µarch or uarch), also called computer organization, is the way a given instruction set architecture (ISA) is implemented on a processor. A given ISA may be implemented with different microarchitectures.[1] Implementations might vary due to different goals of a given design or due to shifts in technology.[2] Computer architecture is the combination of microarchitecture and instruction set design. Relation to instruction set architecture The ISA is roughly the same as the programming model of a processor as seen by an assembly language programmer or compiler writer. The ISA includes the execution model, processor registers, address and data formats among other things. The Intel Core microarchitecture microarchitecture includes the constituent parts of the processor and how these interconnect and interoperate to implement the ISA. The microarchitecture of a machine is usually represented as (more or less detailed) diagrams that describe the interconnections of the various microarchitectural elements of the machine, which may be everything from single gates and registers, to complete arithmetic logic units (ALU)s and even larger elements. -
The Jon Brenneis Photograph Archive
http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8m3317t No online items Finding Aid to the Jon Brenneis Photograph Archive Bancroft Library staff The Bancroft Library 2016 The Bancroft Library University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 [email protected] URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ Finding Aid to the Jon Brenneis BANC PIC 2002.171 1 Photograph Archive Language of Material: English Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library Title: The Jon Brenneis photograph archive creator: Brenneis, Jon Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 2002.171 Physical Description: 124,000 photographs (57 boxes (negatives), 14 boxes (photographic prints and transparencies), 3 oversize boxes (photographic prints), 1 box (transparencies)) Date (inclusive): 1940-1990, bulk 1946-1985 Abstract: The professional photographic archive of freelance photojournalist Jon Brenneis of Berkeley, California. Covering a wide range of news, popular culture, and human interest stories, chiefly from 1948 into the 1980s, particular strengths are science and technology, high tech companies of the San Francisco Bay Area, and corporate and business history focused on Bay Area companies. Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog. Access to Collection Collection is open for research; access requires advance notice. Conditions Governing Use Jon Brenneis's copyright in this material has been assigned to the Regents of the University of California, for the benefit of The Bancroft Library. In addition to copyright considerations, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by terms of University of California gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. -
My Memories of Early Days at Hewlett-Packard Gmbh Willi Jirgal
My Memories of Early Days at Hewlett-Packard GmbH Willi Jirgal Foreword Mr. HP Europe Administrator—Willi Jirgal Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard changed literally tens of thousands of lives across the globe. It wasn't so much that we couldn't have found other challenging jobs in high technology. But it was our luck that we signed on to the best company with the best work culture in the world of the second half of the 20th century. That culture which was largely US derived soon found Bill Hewlett extending it internationally. Bill was always the internationalist, and started the HP moves overseas with operations in Switzerland, Britain and Germany. This was done to exploit the new European Economic agreements on trade. Some of this history is covered in the Ray Smelek and Carl Cottrell memoirs on this website. Willi's memories will fill in more information on the rapid growth of the German manufacturing operation. He recalls some writings of Fred Schröder and Eberhard Knoblauch, as they reviewed some of the early decades of their endeavors. It is always interesting to review memories of managers like Fred and Eberhard, as they lead a creative team of enthusiastic engineers and manufacturing personnel to build an entirely new facility in a new land. We can then compare their experiences with other memoirs like Al Steiner's memoir of his success in moving Delcon from Mountain View, California to Colorado Springs. Or Cort van Rensselaer in his establishment of the Oscilloscope Division in the brand new site in Colorado Springs. There is so much in common with all such memories, in a way which shows how HP people adapt previous experiences and successes to install the HP Way across the globe. -
Adrenaline Adventures
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