25 Microchips That Shook the World

[Cpuswe]

http://spectrum.ieee.org/may09/8747/1

[johnorun]

Thanks for this article, Thomas.
I couldn't stop reading this until I read it all!
This is helpful info for some of us...

[smithy]

Some interesting choices. I certainly agree with ones like the 555 and 741. Others I'm not so sure

[CPUShack]

Like the Sh Boom lol

However I'd say that most of their choices are pretty good.

I think I would have added the PowerPC and/or MIPS instead of the Sparc though.

[el_gecko]

You'll notive that a pic come from here (the white Zilog Z80)

[JAC]

Another way of looking at it is to consider the chips, or should I say architectures, that shook/shake YOUR World.

For me the x86 ( essentially what you are probably using now is a juiced up version of that architecture )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86


closely followed by the Microchip PIC .. yah, there are others, but I love these bad boys.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchip_PIC

[donutty]

Yay for 555 !!

Everybody's first chip!

[smithy]

Even though it doesn't make it into the "microchip" set, the humble voltage regulator must be given credit as well. How many 78 series must have been produced over the decades? It must run into the 10s or hundreds of billions

[kosmokrator]

[michefe]

WOW.
Clap Clap Clap.
Thank you, very interesting article.

[susl45]

Thx for sharing this interesting artical from IEEE.

[thomsonicus]

I just love articles like this. Thanks for the link!