Intel - From Inventors of the CPU to Laughing Stock [Part 1]

Good work Dagogo! - a really interesting episode! Having lived through all that you talk about and being involved with a lot of it, it was great to see you consolidate the histroy into a digestible couple of episodes!

I can't even imagine how the people who started Fairchild and Intel must feel about the drastic change their invention brought to the world. It won't be exaggerating if I say it was as revolutionary as the invention of Wheels.

14nm: exists Intel: “I can milk you”

I was an ASIC Engineer thru the 80's an 90's. In the late 90's Intel approach me about employment. Their salary offer was half of what I making at the time. I told them no and why and they're response was "but we're Intel."

7:15 AMD stands for “Advanced Micro Devices”

2021: "there is no reason anyone would want an atomic bomb in their home" 2050:

I can recall that the original IRON-MAN comics always bragged that Stark's armor was powered by transistors.

My father was a young engineer with IBM in the 1950’s when he was recruited by Shockley to join his venture in California. My father declined Shockley’s offer and stayed with IBM. I think he made the right decision.

I worked at Intel, from 1978-80 and stood in line behind Ted Hoff, at a scrap pc board sale that the company held for engineers and technicians to get rid of the "dog" boards. (Broken). He was in line in front of me and talking to a younger engineer, whose posture told me he held Ted in high regard. So I consciously took a mental photo of his face and name. A few years ago I saw his face in a web page. That's him, I thought. It was a link to an obituary. I remembered his name too, so I read the article and it said that he was the creator of the first microprocessor. My gut told me that I was standing in front of greatness and it was wonderful to finally learn who he was. I was a test and repair technician working on their microprocessor development system. I fixed the boards I bought. 🙂

It's fascinating to realize that Fairchild Semiconductor is The O.G. startup that define the 'startup culture' as we know today. Yes, every company has a starting point (either big or small), but the contemporary term of "start up" as a culture (especially in tech industry) is an entirely different story. For example, agriculture has been around since tens of thousands of years ago, but modern Agricultural Revolution (between mid 17th to mid 19th century) made it much more EFFECTIVE and EFFICIENT because of the increasing number of labor and land availability. This is parallel with the current tech industry. The discovery of silicon as semiconductor makes everything much more efficient. And history has told us that everything will eventually be replaced with a more efficient version of that thing (mostly on economical standpoint). But this idea of "startups" is going to be problematic if we glorify and romanticize it too much. It'll create another bubble.

Coldfusion on Intel while cooking, nice day to everyone from Greece edit: wow, so many kind people around the globe watching, keep it on guys

'part 1' damn, there's more roasting coming lmao

Before watching I predict the end of the story reads " Then they stopped hiring engineers and started hiring bean counters"

I never stop getting amazed how many incredible, talented people has YouTube enabled to emerge, on their own. Look at the quality on this video! 20 years ago you'd only get this on TV... maybe. You'd have to pitch the show to some producer, and jump through all the hoops. Now you just create a video and the world decides, nobody is holding you back.

CPU engineers get to say they literally engineer logic for a living

It's always so disheartening to hear that if you look back far enough behind every major human achievement there was a terrible person who everyone despised but without them it may never have happened.

I used to have Atari2600 ..then a Commodore 16 then a Commodore 64 i am lucky to have grown up knowing these machines ....I wish i could see just a short 200 years in the future to see how far we get .

I was looking for part 2 then realized this was uploaded 2 hours ago.

This is very reminiscent of a documentary called “something ventured” one of my all time favs, can’t wait for part 2!!🥂

I'm a lifelong technology enthusiast who became interested in electronics as a child growing up in the 1970s. My electronic technician career began in 1985 after completing an associate degree program in electronics technology from DeVry Institute of Technology which later became DeVry University. The history of the CPU, microprocessor, integrated circuit, Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, as presented here, is pretty accurate. A well made documentary to quickly present the birth and evolution of modern digital electronics.