Denver/Pikes Peak IEEE Life Member Affinity Group May Virtual Meeting
Pikes Peak/Denver IEEE Life Member Affinity Group
May Virtual Meeting
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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86254508257
Meeting ID: 862 5450 8257
Wednesday, May 13 2 pm MDT/3 pm CDT
We've received a lot of positive feedback from our members with regard to the virtual session we held last month. Although we miss the socialization and camaraderie of our normal in-person events, this new approach is certainly convenient for us and eliminates issues related to travel. We've been in contact with some of our neighbor LMAGs and are entertaining the idea of sharing our sessions. This one is coming to us from our friends in the Pikes Peak chapter to the South of us. Here are the details they provided.
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Who Invented the Integrated Circuit?
Gene Freeman, Retired R and D Manager
Pikes Peak Section Life Member
The integrated circuit is one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century and continues its dominance as an electronic packaging technology in the 21st Century.
This talk focusses on its beginnings and looks at the controversies around attribution of “who was first?”
We start with the invention of the transistor in the 1940’s at Bell Labs. We then talk about the motivation for the Integrated Circuit and look at the implementation approaches. Finally, we examine the Integrated Circuit patent fight between Texas Instruments and Fairchild Semiconductor. We conclude with the Nobel Prize awarded to Jack Kilby from Texas Instruments in the year 2000. As a special bonus we find out what Kilby’s prototype was worth in 2014.
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- Date: 13 May 2020
- Time: 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
- All times are (GMT-07:00) US/Mountain
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- https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86254508257
- Meeting ID: 862 5450 8257
- Denver, Colorado
- United States
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- Co-sponsored by dbondurant@mac.com
- Starts 06 May 2020 08:24 PM
- Ends 13 May 2020 03:00 PM
- All times are (GMT-07:00) US/Mountain
- No Admission Charge
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Eugene
Who Invented the Integrated Circuit?
The integrated circuit is one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century and continues its dominance as an electronic packaging technology in the 21st Century.
This talk focusses on its beginnings and looks at the controversies around attribution of “who was first?”
We start with the invention of the transistor in the 1940’s at Bell Labs. We then talk about the motivation for the Integrated Circuit and look at the implementation approaches. Finally, we examine the Integrated Circuit patent fight between Texas Instruments and Fairchild Semiconductor. We conclude with the Nobel Prize awarded to Jack Kilby from Texas Instruments in the year 2000. As a special bonus we find out what Kilby’s prototype was worth in 2014.
Biography:
Gene Freeman worked in the Electronics Industry from 1977 until his retirement in 2018. He worked in R and D both as an individual contributor and manager. His employers included Hughes Aircraft, Northrup, Teledyne Inet, Texas Instruments, NCR Microelectronics, Compaq, Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He started out working with PC boards then moved to IC Development and then to System Integration. Key products included PC Servers, Microcomputers and Controllers , Volatile and Non Volatile Memories, Storage Interconnects, Graphic Chips, BMCs, DSPs, Automotive ASICS, Optical Interconnects, and UPS Controllers. Gene served on several patent committees and was a member of industry consortia including ANSI T11 (Fibre Channel) and JEDEC Memory Committees.
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