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Story Chip was founded in 2009 by Jean Pamela McGavin and her brother Lee McGavin and later renamed History Chip. It is an archive of non-fiction, personal narratives for the expansion of contemporary history by including stories and experiences of all members of society.
The earliest multi-chip microprocessors were the Four-Phase Systems AL-1 in 1969 and Garrett AiResearch MP944 in 1970, developed with multiple MOS LSI chips. [177] The first single-chip microprocessor was the Intel 4004 , [ 178 ] developed on a single PMOS LSI chip. [ 177 ]
The history of computing hardware starting at 1960 is marked by the conversion from vacuum tube to solid-state devices such as transistors and then integrated circuit (IC) chips. Around 1953 to 1959, discrete transistors started being considered sufficiently reliable and economical that they made further vacuum tube computers uncompetitive .
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By reducing the number of flawed chips, from about 70% to 10%, the cost of complex designs like early microprocessors fell by the same amount. Systems based on contact aligners cost on the order of $300 in single-unit quantities, the MOS 6502 , designed specifically to take advantage of these improvements, cost only $25.
While Arm is a fabless semiconductor company (it does not manufacture or sell its own chips), it licenses the ARM architecture family design to a variety of companies. Those companies in turn sell billions of ARM-based chips per year—12 billion ARM-based chips shipped in 2014, [1] about 24 billion ARM-based chips shipped in 2020, [2] some of those are popular chips in their own right.
Merged with Burroughs to form Unisys; company was formerly Sperry Rand until it dropped Rand from its name in 1978 and continued as Sperry: Sperry Rand — United States: 1955: 1978: Reverted to Sperry Corporation name in 1978: Stardent Inc. — United States: 1989: 1994: Restructured as Kubota Graphics in 1994; dissolved the same year: Sun ...
Microchip Technology was founded in 1987 when General Instrument spun off its microelectronics division as a wholly owned subsidiary. [5] [6] The newly formed company was a supplier of programmable non-volatile memory, microcontrollers, digital signal processors, card chip on board, and consumer integrated circuits.