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Toshiba's press department told Forbes that it was Intel that invented flash memory. [13] In 1988, a Toshiba research team led by Masuoka demonstrated the first gate-all-around (GAA) MOSFET transistor. It was an early non-planar 3D transistor, and they called it a "surrounding gate transistor" (SGT).
The first Compaq PC was sketched out on a placemat by Ted Papajohn while dining with the founders in a pie shop, [16] [18] (named House of Pies in Houston). Their first venture capital came from Benjamin M. Rosen and Sevin Rosen Funds, who helped the fledgling company secure $1.5 million to produce their initial computer. [19]
Expired US Patent No. 6,829,672, for an electronic flash memory external storage method and device. [7] Chinese Patent No. ZL02114797.3 for a USB Wireless Modem; South Korean Patent No. 583626, for a multifunction semiconductor storage device and method for booting-up computer host
In January 2013, tech company Kingston, released a flash drive with 1 TB of storage. [24] The first USB 3.1 type-C flash drives, with read/write speeds of around 530 MB/s, were announced in March 2015. [25] By July 2016, flash drives with 8 to 256 GB capacity were sold more frequently than those with capacities between 512 GB and 1 TB.
For example, the 1961 Semiconductor Network Computer (Molecular Electronic Computer, Mol-E-Com), [10] [11] [12] the first monolithic integrated circuit [13] [14] [15] general purpose computer (built for demonstration purposes, programmed to simulate a desk calculator) was built by Texas Instruments for the US Air Force.
2011. AMD announced the world's first 8-core CPU for desktop PCs. 2017. AMD announced Ryzen processors based on the Zen architecture, with up to 16 cores. 2017. Intel 8th generation Core i3, Core i5, Core i7 and Core i9, increased to approximately 4, 6, 8 and 8 cores respectively. 2017. Over 100 billion ARM-based CPUs shipped. [19] 2020.
A payroll system was run on Lyons Electronic Office (LEO) a computer system designed by Maurice Wilkes who had previously worked on EDSAC. Sep 1951: UK The oldest known recordings of computer generated music were played by the Ferranti Mark 1 computer. The Mark 1 is a commercial version of the Manchester Mark 1 machine from the University of ...
Ajay V. Bhatt [4] is an Indian-American computer architect who produced several widely used technologies, including USB (Universal Serial Bus), Platform Power Management architecture, and various other chipsets.