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IBM BrandVoice: IBM Engineer Bob Dennard And The Chip That Changed The World [Forbes]

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IBM Engineer Bob Dennard And The Chip That Changed The World By John Markoff The inspiration, as is often the case, came late one evening. Bob Dennard, then a 34-year-old IBM electrical engineer, was pondering a colleague’s research presentation he’d seen earlier that day. It was autumn 1966, and Dennard had been helping design a new form of computer memory using silicon-based transistors. This approach, known as microelectronics, would stand in contrast to the computer industry’s tradition of storing data magnetically – a technology referred to as core memory. The presentation that Dennard had listened to with a trace of envy was by a competing team of IBM engineers at work on new, smaller forms of magnetic storage. Back then, the largest magnetic storage systems, requiring room-sized equipment, could store only one megabyte of information. That would be equivalent to a 500-page book – or about a minute of a Top 40 pop song. Besides being bulky, these storage systems were slow and th Show less Read more
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