The age of the article is evident: > "The performance of this chip --which worked the first time-- was undoubtedly..." Those were the "bad old days" ("good ol

The age of the article is evident: > "The performance of this chip --which worked the first time-- was undoubtedly..." Those were the "bad old days" ("good old days"?) when millions could be spent developing an IC and when it was manufactured, it wouldn't work. In 1985, we really didn't have EDA verification and synthesis tools, and tons of stuff was still done by hand.