David of Vertical Memory

Control Data Corporation (CDC) was the World’s Leading Supercomputer company for 40-years.  Starting as classified group of Navy code breakers during WWII building tube-type computers, CDC was building the fastest computers by the 1970s in the Twin Cities.

By the early 1980s, CDC needed a dramatic leap forward to stay ahead of Cray Research, and several Japanese supercomputer companies.  They creates ETA Systems to build a computer 10 times more powerful than any of the day, the ETA-10.

During the 1970s, fielded military computer technology was failing to keep pace with rapidly evolving commercial technology.  In 1980, the DoD launched an aggressive technology development called Very High Speed Integrated Circuits (VHSIC) to rapidly develop 1.2 micron and 0.5 micron semiconductor and advanced computer-aided design tools.  Across town from ETA Systems, Honeywell Solid State Electronics was developing leading edge CMOS and packaging technologies under a VHSIC contract.

The presentation will describe how Honeywell and ETA Systems worked together to create the ETA-10, The First CMOS and Only Cryogenically Cooled Supercomputer.

Biography:

David Bondurant has been involved with the computer and semiconductor industry for 49-years.  He was a computer architect at Control Data, Sperry-Univac, and Honeywell.  He was involved with the government-sponsored advanced semiconductor program called VHSIC (Very High Speed Integrated Circuits) at Univac & Honeywell where he developed microprocessor and ASIC semiconductor products in bipolar CML, CMOS, and radiation hard CMOS.  He was involved with emerging non-volatile RAM marketing at industry leading companies, Ramtron (FRAM), Simtek (non-volatile SRAM), and Freescale Semiconductor/Everspin Technologies (MRAM) as they became viable over the last 30-years.

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