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To give some perspective, a chip like this from 1982 would have been designed by a very small team; maybe just 2-3 people and they were using primitive 1970s te
by wmf 3y ago
To give some perspective, a chip like this from 1982 would have been designed by a very small team; maybe just 2-3 people and they were using primitive 1970s technology with no Internet access. Today you could learn how to design a chip like this in a few years, maybe faster if you just stick to logic design.
- voxadam 3y ago> using primitive 1970s technology Including, but not limited to, miles of Rubylith.[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubylith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubylith
- kens 3y agoWell, square feet of Rubylith maybe. I haven't been able to find the exact date that Intel switched from Rubylith to digitally-generated masks, but I'm pretty sure they had switched by 1982.