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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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By the age of 12 he had moved on to electronics, building things with parts ordered from an Allied Radio Catalog, a shortwave radio kit, and surplus relays and motors salvaged from the garbage at his father’s employer, General Railway Signal Co., San Jose, Calif., He started his explorations with chemistry. in Rochester, NY.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

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Here, however, the plan was to make it possible for users to bypass the SRAM and attach the processor directly to a DRAM, which would allow the chip to be designed into low-cost systems as well as to address very large data structures. and Convergent Technologies (San Jose, Calif., a division of Unisys Corp.).

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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The F6 DM uses ferrous batteries, with no lithium content, that BYD says are high-energy density and low cost. San Jose Mercury News ). BYD said the F6DM (dual mode) sedan will go on sale in China in the fourth quarter for $20,000 to $30,000.The BYD also developed the motors and software for the system. Bloomberg News ).

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