Refuting blackbird folklore

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(robert arndt) wrote:


Geeze, you probably think the integrated circuit and microprocessor
were both derived from Nazi research, huh? What is it with this
Pavlovian reaction you demonstrate to all things (allegedly) Germanic?


It's quite possible that German research in this area influenced or
inspired later western work.


Hardly since the Germans didnt actually do any work in this area.
The Germans's fell far behind the allies in terms of electronics
and electronic warfare as the war progressed.

The transistor came out of work done at Bell Labs that began in
1939 by Russel Ohl and the IC was invented at Texa Instruments
by Jack Kilby.


A marker on the sidewalk in Palo Alto, Ca.just north of El Camino
on San Antonio Road notes that being the site where Dr. Shokley(sp)
and associates invented the transistor. A dozen or so blocks north on
San Antonio at Charleston there is a building with a monument at the
door noting that "At this site Dr Robert Noyce and associates at
Fairchild invented the first practical application of the integrated
circuit." That would have been the Planar Process and the whole
Silicon Valley evolved from that.

JK