Microchips That Shook the World

Posted by Soulskill on Friday May 1, 2009 @11:20AM from the seismo-eighty-six dept.

wjousts writes "IEEE Spectrum has an interesting article on '25 Microchips That Shook the World,' including such classics as the Signetics NE555 Timer, MOS Technology 6502 Microprocessor (Apple II, Commodore PET and the brain of Bender) and the Intel 8088 Microprocessor. Quoting: 'Among the many great chips that have emerged from fabs during the half-century reign of the integrated circuit, a small group stands out. Their designs proved so cutting-edge, so out of the box, so ahead of their time, that we are left groping for more technology clichés to describe them. Suffice it to say that they gave us the technology that made our brief, otherwise tedious existence in this universe worth living.'"

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Anonymous Coward by Anonymous Coward · 2009-05-01 11:24 · Score: -1, Offtopic

FP!? Yah. FP Anonymously.
mo3 down by Anonymous Coward · 2009-05-01 13:00 · Score: -1, Offtopic

the 8ost. Look at th3se rules will example, if you
Re:All of them great by Anonymous Coward · 2009-05-01 16:31 · Score: -1, Offtopic

You do know that it is illegal to put red lights on the front of a non-emergency vehicle, don't you?