25 microchips that shook the world
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microchip design, as in life, small things sometimes add up to big things. Dream up a clever microcircuit, get it sculpted in a sliver of silicon, and your little creation may unleash a technological revolution. It happened with the Intel 8088 microprocessor. And the Mostek MK4096 4-kilobit DRAM. And the Texas Instruments TMS32010 digital signal processor.
Published in:
Spectrum, IEEE
(Volume:46
,
Issue:
5
)
Date of Publication: May 2009