From Tube to Chip

By Mr Lawrence

  • Jean B. Perring discovered Cathode Rays

  • Fleming sees that diode can convert AC into DC

  • Fleming's Diode was known as Vacuum Tube

  • Lee De Forest's audion is also called a Triode

  • Philo T. Fansworth produces the first television image

  • ENIAC was completed

  • Bell Labs invented Transistor which replaced Vacuum Tube

  • Bell Labs builds first functional Solar Cell

  • ENIAC is no longer used

  • Bell Labs pioneer the concept of Laser

  • First integrating circuit was invented by Jack Kilby at Texas Instrument

  • U.S. Patent Office awards the first patent o an integrated circuit to Robert Noyce

  • Bell Labs builds and lauches the First Satellite

  • Robert Noyce and 2 other top engineers resigned from Fairchild Semiconductor

  • Busicom chose Hoff's solution over its own 12-chip design

  • Period: to

    Unix operating system & C programming language

  • Intel and Busicom agreed that in exchange for cheaper chip prices for Busicom, Intel would gain full right to sell the chips to anyone

  • Intel's build 4004 integrated CPU, "a computer on a chip", and touched the top

  • MITS build Atlair 8800 based on 8080 CPU, the first "personal" computer

  • Apple-1 was demonstrated in April and went on sale on July

  • Intel's build 8086, the first 16-bit processor

  • IBM personal computer

  • Intel build 80286 and touched the bottom