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Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:43:05 David Rosenthal Intel architecture.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 11:01 David Rosenthal Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore are only just leaving Fairchild Semiconductor to start Intel.
- ▶ 26:41 David Rosenthal Bill and Paul are like, we can take this new thing that's coming out of Intel, a microprocessor, which is promising to be a full computer on one chip, and we can use that, we can build
- ▶ 27:40 David Rosenthal While they're waiting for the AD-O-E, this new first microprocessor from Intel to come out, or at least for them to get access to it,
- ▶ 35:24 David Rosenthal So then, in the spring of 1974, Bill's freshman year, Electronics Magazine publishes big news about a new Intel chip, the next generation, the next turn of the crank on Moore's Law, the 8080.
- ▶ 44:11 Ben Gilbert And you got to code to the machine instructions, like literally the assembly language for the chip inside for the Intel.
- ▶ 48:52 Ben Gilbert So what, did they get some kind of sweet deal from Intel?
- ▶ 48:57 David Rosenthal The list price from Intel for the 8080 chip was 360 dollars.
- ▶ 49:03 David Rosenthal So, like, I think this is part of what was deterring the market of how would anybody sell a kit that was affordably priced when so much of the cost of goods would go to Intel with the processor deal.
- ▶ 49:16 David Rosenthal He managed to negotiate a volume deal with Intel to get eighty-eighty chips at 75 bucks a pop.
- ▶ 49:29 David Rosenthal I wasn't able to find how that negotiation went down, or why, like, Ed Roberts in Albuquerque, New Mexico got this sweetheart deal from Intel.
- ▶ 49:53 Ben Gilbert You could imagine maybe Intel had already put all the money into the fixed cost of spinning up the fabs,
- ▶ 1:27:41 David Rosenthal In late 1979, Intel announces that they're coming out with the 8086 processor, which is a 16 bit microprocessor.
- ▶ 1:33:48 David Rosenthal Hell, Ed Roberts could put together the hardware to sell a microcomputer and do this deal with Intel.
- ▶ 1:33:53 David Rosenthal Like, I think IBM can do a deal with Intel.
- ▶ 1:39:16 David Rosenthal Even Intel, and you know, Bill talks about this.
- ▶ 1:39:19 David Rosenthal He doesn't think that Intel even realizes what's happening here.
- ▶ 1:43:37 David Rosenthal Despite being named Seattle Computer Products, I think this company was actually based in Taquilla, Washington, a programmer named Tim Patterson had just written a sixteen-bit operating system for the eighty-eighty-six that Intel had just…
- ▶ 1:44:16 David Rosenthal And so when Intel now has announced this new 16 bit processor generation that they're coming out with, well, Seattle Computer Products, they want to sell motherboards and have them ready for 16 bit.
- ▶ 2:45:18 David Rosenthal They used the Intel, two 86 chip instead of the Intel, three 86 chip.