The Intel 386 Story for Kids

[Recorded Feb 4, 2009]
Today, many American teenagers enjoy a life enriched by an almost pervasive level of technology. Teens live surrounded by laptop computers, gaming systems, cell phones, and DVD and MP3 music players. All of these technologies have been made possible through increasingly smaller, cheaper and more powerful microprocessors often developed and sold by Intel.

In this lecture, Professor Richard Tedlow targets his talk at teenagers to explain a part of the microprocessor technology revolution that surrounds and enables their lifestyles. To tell the story of microprocessors, Professor Tedlow focuses on Intel and its long-time chief executive, Andy Grove. Andy Grove's life story is in many ways a story of determined success from his escape from communist Hungary as a teenager to his rise at Intel to become CEO. Andy Grove is a distinctive personality whose life has been guided by his ability to overcome obstacles, work on a team, take calculated risks and seeks to make a positive difference. Professor Tedlow challenges the students in the audience to think about the course they will chart in their own lives by using Andy Grove's life as an example.

Educators are welcome to use this lecture in their classrooms.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Computer
• History
• Museum
• Intel
• Tedlow
• Andy
• Grove
• Microprocessors
• Chips
• technology
• Hungary

[Albesa81]

"Drop out at Harvard because Bill Gates has a lot more money than these other two people." LOOOL XD

[Alphasys]

This presentation is filled with fallacies, to make it pallatable for the young. I kinda resent that. It's not how the MuPee was conceived, nor does it state how they were first thought of. But since Intel is a market leader, in developing the current microprocessors, it was bent. Most microprocessors in cell phones, and other devices besides the PC's, are made by japanese and korean manufacturers nowadays. Even philips makes MuPees. This is a big advertisement for Intel, but it's not the truth.

[ZXRulezzz]

If there were no intel and no ugly useless calculator called IBM PC and compatibles, there could be Motorola 68k and PowerPC and Amiga. Or, at least, MSX TurboR or something else like that... But sadly they all screwed up :( IMHO

[Imprezaman555]

@tonyrueb but that is pretty much what I mean, the ENIAC was programmable, unlike the others, although the z3 i believe was, also it did use primitive floating point.

[tonyrueb]

@Imprezaman555 - one that comes to mind is the Bombs used in England during WWII but they where designed to break the Enigma code and only to break there code. you couldn't do much else with it. all other computers at the time could only do one thing at a time, and i dont think the Bombs used any vacuum tubes, it was heavy mechanical

[VintageJunior]

The first computers were the Zuse machines, which were developed BEFORE and while WW2. So the British and Americans have nothing to do with it.

[tomp2008]

ahh nostalgia.. still remember playing the original King's Quest on my 386DX.

[ComputerHistory]

Prior to ENIAC there were several early computers that utilized electronics as a part of their architecture but ENIAC is often credited as being the first general purpose electronic computer.

With about 18,000 vacuum tubes, 1,500 relays, 70,000 resistors, and 10,000 capacitors, ENIAC was the largest electronic device of its time. It consumed enough power for 50 homes and was capable of 5,000 operations per second. The principal designers were J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly.

[Imprezaman555]

no, there were electronic computers b4, ENIAC was the first one to use a modern-ish architecture.

[oscarmartinez50]

im the new intel, oscarmartinez50!

[ostieguy]

ENIAC was NOT the first computer. It was the first ELECTRONIC computer.

[morgs2020]

Intel is now working on Itaniums with between 2-16 billion transistors @ 65nm-22nm.