Inventions

The first silicon transistor 

God, I have no work to do... it sucks and its so damn boring. Need to come up with some new ideas now... its been ages since I wrote my previous patent. Hmmmm... this needs some serious inspiration.

Let me compile a list of the most important patents/inventions in the history of electronic chips.

1947 - The mother of all inventions, the transistor, was invented
Shockley, bardeen and brattain did the honors

1958 - Gordon Gould invents the laser.
Jack Kilby (TI) and Bob Noyce (Intel) invent the integrated circuit

1968 - RAM invented by Rob Dennard

1971 - Microprocessor invented by Faggin, Hoff and Mazor.

This list makes interesting reading. Nothing really great and new's been invented since 1971. As most people involved with chip design would know, we face huge problems with designing better chips at this point in time. The present generation (us) seriously needs to start thinking and coming up with new ideas.

Think, dumbo, think. Else you're going to be just another also-ran who did what a zillion other people in the world do.