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Geoffrey W.A. Dummer publishes the idea of an integrated circuit.
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German engineer Werner Jacobi publishes patent for integrated circuit like device. This later branched out into modern integrated cirut
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Jack Kilby demonstrates first working microchip showing the world what the integrated circut/ microchip can do.
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Robert Noyce files Patent for the microchip. offically stating the invention of the microchip.
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The geek was Steve Wozniak, the computer was the Apple I, and the chip was the 6502, an 8-bit microprocessor developed by MOS Technology.
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If it weren’t for the TMC0281, E.T. would’ve never been able to “phone home.” That’s because the TMC0281, the first single-chip speech synthesizer, was the heart (or should we say the mouth?) of Texas Instruments’ Speak & Spell learning toy.
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microprocessor architects sought to increase the complexity of CPU instructions as a way of getting more accomplished in each compute cycle.
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Back in the early 1990s, the huge 8-bit microcontroller universe belonged to one company, the almighty Motorola.
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Intel says there was: the 8088. This was the 16-bit CPU that IBM chose for its original PC line, which went on to dominate the desktop computer market.
