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Anyone else questioning this, “The integrated circuit was commercialized in the 1960s yet 25 years later computers still represented just 5% of the value of all
by petegordon 9y ago
Anyone else questioning this, “The integrated circuit was commercialized in the 1960s yet 25 years later computers still represented just 5% of the value of all business equipment”? ICs are everywhere around us (in our phones, cars, refrigerators, coffee makers, weight scales, HVAC, etc.) and are rightfully invisible to us. Let alone all the major business equipment. Or, am I missing something?
- empath75 9y ago25 years later was in the late 1980s
- petegordon 9y agoGood point. Thanks.
- DougHaber 9y agoAs pointed out, 25 years later was in the 80s. I wonder if some of the delay in adoption was due to the relevant patents, which were filed around 1959. Maybe that gave a two decade monopoly to Texas Instruments making it hard for others to adopt or innovate around the technology?
- andars 9y agoTI definitely did not have a monopoly on ICs for those 25 years. Those first patents were on Kilby's process which was essentially abandoned. Fairchild and Intel did a tremendous amount of work getting ICs to be more useful over that timespan (see self-aligned gates).