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TIL: A Method Dear to the Semi World Has His Name, Yet It Wasn’t on His Grave.
The story of Jan Czochralski, three pages about how fast metal crystallizes, and the university that took 66 years to take him back
Oct 3
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TIL: You’ve heard this track while on hold. Do you know where it came from?
A 1962 patent and the song Cisco put while people were on hold, so they wouldn’t hang up.
Sep 26
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TIL: In 1979, 82 chip designs went from the ARPANET to packaged silicon in 29 days
Most of the people who drew them had been learning chip design for about three months.
Sep 19
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TIL: The first patented solid-state diode was built to catch 5mm radio waves in 1890s Calcutta
The story of Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, the polymath who built the first patented solid-state diode and then let the patent lapse
Sep 12
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TIL: The Chip Industry Started with Hand-Built Furnaces and a $150 Transistor
No Cleanroom, No Suppliers, No Yield: Fairchild's First Year
Sep 5
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TIL: The Man Whose Perseverance Made The Transistor Possible
The oxide under the transistor gate was no easy feat.
Aug 29
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TIL: The Crack That Helped Discover Doping
A "junk" piece of silicon at Bell Labs led to the p-n junction, the transistor, and the trick this newsletter is named after
Aug 15
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TIL: Shockley - The man who flunked the test for gifted children
And only went to school after the age of eight.
Aug 8
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TIL: The Story of Jerry Sanders
Forget Boring Corporate Dramas: The Case for a Jerry Sanders Biopic
Aug 1
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TIL: He Invented the Transistor. Then He Died Waiting for Everyone to Notice.
Julius Lilienfeld, copper sulfide, and the 1925 patent that still worked when someone finally built it in 1995
Jul 18
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TIL: Bob Proved It Was Impossible. Two Months Later He Shipped It.
Bob Widlar, a sheep, and the small accounting insight sitting inside every analog chip you own
Jul 11
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TIL: Qualcomm Bet the Company on Trucks Before It Bet on Your Phone
How a satellite tracker for eighteen-wheelers funded a wireless idea everyone else called impossible, and why the company may be running the same play…
Jul 4
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