The Amazing History of Microelectronics

The cell phone in your pocket is really a marriage of at least three transceivers (cellular, WiFi and Bluetooth), a GPS receiver and a computer. Microelectronic technology is one of the drivers that made all this possible, and Intel alone produces over 5 billion transistors every second as part of its IC fabrication operations. How did this happen? Rochester Institute of Technology microelectronics professor Santosh Kurinec explains all in her presentation The Amazing History of Microelectronics.

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[BradfordGuy]

I spent many years, since the early 80s, honing my skills as a Scientific Glass Blower. I was working with, designing, researching, and building multitudes of different apparatus with quartz glass. All of which are used directly in the processing and deposition machines for the manufacture of silicon wafers and the corresponding circuitry. I loved your presentation!

[holyorderofscientists]

As a scientist of basically all fields I find this extremely fascinating. First ever episode where I could see the real development which had haunted me so long as to where all these products and technologies were done and when. This answered my questions. Thank you!

[steveziblut]

Excellent presentation! The members of AWA truly appreciate your effort and the information you've shared. Steve Ziblut

[HeyBirt]

Thank you for including John Atanasoff. In point of fact Mauchly had visited Atanasoff for 5 days and got to study the ABC (Atanasoff Berry Computer) in great detail. Then he and Eckert used the work of Atanasoff and others to build the Eniac without any disclosure or attribution. Atanasoff's work was pioneering: he used punch cards encoded in decimal to program the variables into the ABC. The ABC then converted the decimal values to binary. The machine had about 3K of capacitor based regenerative memory and stored intermediate results in binary on cards punched by HV electrical charges. He designed the first logic circuits with vacuum tubes for his machine. An amazing accomplishment.

[Conenion]

@16:43 you can have an electromechanical computer using relais which is programmable. That would be the Z3 by Conrad Zuse. It was one year before ENIAC.