How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.
From Jack Kilby
I'm sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal of room to grow and prosper.
There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.
I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.
The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.
My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue.
The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.
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