IP: on the history of the 8008 etc (interesting) Subwavelength Geometries: * 4:15PM, Wed May 15, 2002 in Gates B03

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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Lest anyone be misled by the following, please note for the record that the
Intel 8008 preceded the 8080, and the 8008 was architected by Computer
Terminal 
Corporation (later Datapoint Corporation), NOT Intel.  Intel (among other
companies who attempted it, only Intel and TI ever produced silicon and the
prototype TI part was so electrically noisy that it only barely worked...)
agreed to make the part on a special-order basis for Datapoint because Intel
(who was a MEMORY company at the time) wanted Datapoint's memory business,
and 
Datapoint was at the time the world's largest buyer of MOS memories.  Intel
was 
convinced that (other than limited dedicated-controller-apps like the 4004)
there was no market for a general purpose microprocessor-on-a-chip.  ;-)

Datapoint wanted the part for use in the Datapoint 2200, which was the first
self-contained general-purpose desktop microcomputer system.  It included a
12 
line by 80 column CRT display, integrated keyboard, dual digital cassette
tape 
storage, switching regulator power supply (which was considered quite exotic
at 
the time) and was provided with a cassette tape operating system, CTOS, as
well 
as assembler, general purpose editor, a variety of communications/terminal
emulators, and several high-level-language compilers for general purpose
business-oriented data processing.

[In the end, the Intel part was late enough and slow enough that Datapoint
never 
actually used it, and signed the rights to it away to Intel in exchange for
being relieved of the moral obligation of buying the part.  Datapoint
proceeded 
to continue producing the same architecture in the 2200 themselves using MSI
and 
TTL parts.  Intel meanwhile had found other interested customers, realized
that 
there might actually be a market for a general purpose
microcomputer-on-a-chip,
and the rest as they say is history.]

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Subject: [CSL Colloq] Subwavelength Geometries: * 4:15PM, Wed May 15, 2002
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    Computer Systems Laboratory Colloquium
          4:15PM, Wednesday, May 15, 2002
    NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B03
            http://ee380.stanford.edu

Topic:        Subwavelength Geometries:
        Dealing with the Soaring Challenges of Lithography Masks

Speaker:    Stanley Mazor
        Numerical Technologies, Inc.

About the talk:

Stanley Mazor will speak about recent trends in advanced
photomasks and lithography. One of the limitations to extending
Gordon Moore's law of increasing semiconductor density is that
the imaging elements are approaching the wavelength of light and
that it is a challenge to create images of sub-wavelength
dimensions. Resolution enhancement techniques and the use of
advanced photo masks to improve device cost and performance will
also be reviewed.

About the speaker:

Stanley Mazor is the Director of Customer Services at Numerical
Technologies, Inc., a San Jose company which provides services in
advanced photolithography.

In 1969 Stan joined the then-startup Intel Corporation, where he
developed architecture specifications for the industry's first
microprocessors, including the Intel 4004 and 8080, for which he
shares the fundamental design patents. Through 1984 Stan held a
variety of positions within Intel including Applications Support
Engineer for European Operations and supervisor of the company's
microcomputer training development group.

>From 1984 to 1988 Stan was Director of Customer Engineering
Services at Silicon Compiler Systems (SCS), where he developed
application-specific ICs. In 1988 he joined Synopsys as Technical
Training Manager. He is the author of the hardware design
language textbook, "A Guide to VHDL", and has published more than
50 articles on the design and application of VLSI, including
signal processing, instrumentation, security, and optimization.

Stan has also taught courses at Stanford University and the
University of Santa Clara; has been a guest lecturer in China,
Finland, and Sweden; was elected to the Inventor's Hall of Fame;
and has been awarded the Kyoto Prize, the PC Magazine lifetime
achievement award, the Robert Brown--American Innovator Award,
and the Robert Noyce Award presented by the Semiconductor
Industries Association.

Mr. Mazor enjoys sailing, cooking, and is an amateur architect.

Contact information:

Stan Mazor
Numerical Technologies, Inc.
70 W. Plumeria Drive
San Jose, CA 95134
408-273-4485
408-260-7100
smazor@numeritech.com



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