Title: The Computer History Museum The Silicon Engine
Production: Clicker
Featuring: NA
Language: English
Synopsis: The Computer History Museum: The Silicon Engine. The powerful and ubiquitous silicon chips that run the computers, smart phones and even the cars and appliances we use daily all spring from the transistor. That breakthrough invention later became the building blocks of the integrated circuit (IC), which later still blossomed into the semiconductors and microprocessors that have reshaped our modern lives. This video presents an overview of the 60-year history of innovation, invention and development that took us from vacuum tubes to modern microprocessors and was created in May 2009 for the Computer History Museums Silicon Engine exhibit.