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Sunday Pub Quiz

Back in the early 2000s, Intel planned the future of computing around a brand-new chip design, but it ran the software people already owned poorly.

Oct 4 • Semi Doped

Pausing the trivia to ask you a question

Sep 27 • Semi Doped

Semi Doped Pub Quiz

In 1958, a Dallas engineer built a complete circuit on one piece of germanium, then joined its parts with gold wires arching above the surface.

Sep 20 • Semi Doped

Semi Doped Pub Quiz

In September 1963, X, an eccentric engineer arrived at a Fairchild Semiconductor interview after a few drinks and told the R&D manager their work was…

Sep 13 • Semi Doped

Semi Doped Pub Quiz

In 1912 a Nagoya dinnerware maker refused to fund the Okura family’s plan to make porcelain toilets, since Japan had no household sewers to connect them…

Sep 6 • Semi Doped

Semi Doped Pub Quiz

This process takes a material that barely conducts electricity and turns it into something useful, by adding foreign atoms at concentrations as low as…

Aug 30 • Semi Doped

Semi Doped Pub Quiz

In the spring of 1918, a U.S.

Aug 23 • Semi Doped

Semi Doped Pub Quiz

In September 1955, a physicist who had spent nearly two decades at Bell Labs left to start a company of his own, and the deciding factor in where to put…

Aug 9 • Semi Doped

Semi Doped Pub Quiz

If you’ve been on our channels lately, you’d be able to crack this one:

Aug 2 • Semi Doped

Semi Doped Pub Quiz

In 1988, an Israeli-born engineer who had cracked a stubborn problem in memory - how to make a single cell reliably trap and hold electric charge with…

Jul 26 • Semi Doped

In the ancient Syrian city of Damascus, medieval metalsmiths famously hammered contrasting gold and silver wires into deeply carved grooves on iron or…

Jul 19 • Semi Doped

Most engineers will confidently tell you this five-letter word is an acronym, expanded the same way as its radio-wave ancestor from WWII.

Jul 12 • Semi Doped

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