Fairchild Briefing on Integrated Circuits

[@amantin]

Old videos like this seem to be so more understandable. Simple language, good analogies, not too much high res fluff, Good incentive to teach

[@cheponis]

It's much, much more difficult to explain the complex simply than to complexify the already complex. When you see something complex explained simply and accurately, you know that very smart people were involved - because it takes Real Smarts to de-complexify.

[@jps-ib8vh]

and no background music!!!!!!

[@gregdee9085]

Because there used to be a "barrier to entry" to making these, it was expensive with expensive equipment.. so only the best got through to make them.. unlike now.. "everyone's a DJ".

[@CATech1138]

@@gregdee9085Jethro Bodine would be trying to be an influencer today instead of a movie producer

[@Fuzzybeanerizer]

59 seconds into video: "But first, let's have a commercial." These brilliant geniuses anticipated our modern KZbin 54 years ahead of its time!

[@CATech1138]

it was called Broadcast TV back then

[@naota3k]

Dr. Jim Angell died in 2006, and Dr. Harry Sello in 2017. Thanks, Jim & Harry. A nice legacy, RIP.

[@buckykattnj]

I just signed up for the Fairchild TV Briefing brochures in the video. I can't wait to get them!

[@demef758]

They never received it because you didn't use a ZIP code in the address!

[@MagicalGentleman]

I wish more educational films were made in this style, they're great.

[@Cypeq]

Nah make them 5 minutes long skipping all the details.

[@joejia1410]

@@Cypeq why?

[@milominderbinder6209]

@@joejia1410 sarcasm

[@ramencurry6672]

Back then men were gentlemen and drank rob roys and manhattans

[@thecaptainb1]

This is some old stuff. I started in Fairchild's material division in 1971, then off to CMOS in 1974. Fun times, but serious work.

[@ramencurry6672]

Amazing stuff

[@thecaptainb1]

@@ramencurry6672 Back then, I built our own Diffusion furnaces from scratch. Those were the days!

[@estebanquito545]

what an experience!!!!

[@christopherjackson2157]

That's really cool. U must have witnessed the birth of so many things people of generation couldn't imagine life without.

[@alfonso3967]

With so many ic manufacturers, I didn't know how much we owe Fairchild for what we have today. This is one video deserves a lot being here. Thanks for sharing it.

[@CATech1138]

just go through the lists of First until you start hearing the word planar...EVERY common chip and transistor made today is planar....as revolutionary a technique as using semi conducting matrials is a concept in all electronic equipment today.....there were 3 huge leaps in bringing our modern electronic life into dexistamce...first was semiconductors....second was the use of silicon instead of germanium, it's oxides and alloys...and third is planar manufacturing..

[@tschak909]

It is worth noting, the process described here used a contact mask, producing PMOS chips. The achilles heel of this process was of course, the net yield of working chips from a given die. This is mentioned in this video Even by the mid 1970s, this yield was approximately 20 to 30 percent. Process pioneers, like John Pavinen developed an N-channel process using non-contact masks at MOS technologies during 1974, and increased the net yield of masks to over 70%. Making the $25 6502 CPU possible.

[@petermitchell6348]

AH yes, the 6502. As used by Apple and Acorn Computers, who went on to design the very first ARM processor.

[@demef758]

The process described here is not MOS, but bipolar. MOS was around about this time, but it had some serious problems that caused the threshold voltage to change with the applied gate voltage. Fairchild finally solved this puzzle when Bruce Deal revealed the culprit: mobile sodium atoms in the oxide beneath the gate. Once that contaminant was removed, then stable MOS devices could be made, which begat the MOS revolution. I worked in PMOS at Fairchild in 1971, and then NMOS came along another year or two after that. Here we have another example of Fairchild's pioneering leadership.

[@gregd6022]

@@petermitchell6348 for the record Apple had no hand in the "design" of the ARM proc, they were just finance, and a lot later in the game. (this is not from a google search)

[@AgentOffice]

Do you think they would have put someone in a psych ward for making 2nm?

[@oo0O08]

I never thought I could sit through a half our documentary on integrated circuits and remain fascinated throughout.

[@leyasep5919]

And it's still so relevant !

[@Skidd2]

This is amazing what they accomplished in 1966... things like this made our modern life possible!

[@misterkota1252]

Skidd2 because... aliens

[@hannunorppa5590]

@@misterkota1252 If I didn't do electronics since 1970 as a kid, well, not aliens, I might have claimed as well: We could not go to the moon because of those primitive computers in Apollos! Nonsense! Modest yes, but efficient enought for the Moon ride!

[@AgentOffice]

If they started with 2nm we'd be further ahead now

[@igorbecker2323]

Old school videos are a lot clearer/more detailed than contemporary videos. Much better for educational purposes

[@youreale]

Companies like this have all my respect. This groundbreaking work made possible the future where we actually live.

[@climbeverest]

The Syosset based company did not give the engineers the respect and latitude they deserved so they left and formed intel

[@freelectron2029]

and now comes sky net.... yay

[@stachowi]

All I can say is wow! I wish I saw this video in college. Explains the fundamentals extremely well. Back to basics, excellent. Thanks for posting!

[@RRROBERT1990]

these old videos are the best...

[@SreeTejaSimhaGemaraju]

Old comments are the best.

[@ThedudeMMXlll]

True 2019 here

[@ksln]

Bump. 2020 is on the horizon....

[@richardhall9815]

@@ksln Watch out for coronavirus

[@ramencurry6672]

What about old adult movies

[@quatz1981]

Its impressive that even then how small the integrated circuit was. Its mind boggling how far we have come though and the level of miniaturization we have on our chips today.

[@Haruki_Aikawa]

When your company has a “commercial” for the the product it’s selling, within the film that’s demonstrating said product... Savage..

[@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject]

This is a real classic! Great historical information, and very well presented!

[@GalacticJourney]

Thank you so much for this! We'll be watching it on October 11, just like folks around the country 55 years ago...

[@DoctorBlankenstein]

This changed our lives...

[@richhenry8004]

Kids should watch this just to understand the monumental work that went in to what we have today. I feel like they think it was easy, or that it all just appeared out of thin air.

[@kennylavish]

The intro is way cool with eerie sounds. Love the 'commercials'! I had to watch the whole thing it's very informative. Great old school video nice upload!

[@wiiu7640]

This is literally the best thing you could give someone who wants to go into computers/computer science.

[@campbellmorrison8540]

Wow how things have change, wonderful to have these videos showing the progress we have made

[@offmeds2nite]

This is so retro, I love it.

[@ultort]

Really good video, thanks you for putting this on youtube

[@dazaro3]

Great video ,and today smartphones have over 4 billion transistors! Amazing ,we have come a long way since 1967.

[@markjmaxwell9819]

Lollll Made my own circuit boards and soldered all my own parts on to it when l was 15 years old. Also did some study on micro computer architecture later in life. Technology and Engineering has always held a fascination. Loved my old texas instruments calculator 😉 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃

[@skilz8098]

I love my TI84 Silver Plus! I can do integration and derivatives with ease! I can write my own programs on it, and so much more! I can even play Tetris without sound on it!

[@jvolstad]

Same here. I was a Ham Radio Operator.

[@KutuluMike]

Fairchild: "Metal over oxide... you can't make an integrated circuit without it!" Polysilicon: "Hold my beer."

[@robertturner2000]

The silicon gate technology was actually developed by Federico while working at Fairchild. He followed Noyce and Moore to their company, intel, but eventually left to found Zilog... I love reading anything written by Federico Faggin - quite an interesting fellow

[@foxtrot312]

Is Metal-over-oxide same as metal oxide? As in MOSFET

[@peplegal8253]

@@foxtrot312 : Yes.

[@mrtruongleo]

I have watched many videos about how to create an IC chip, and this is the easiest one to understand. Thank you.

[@philbox17]

Great documentary. I don't think it is possible to find an older documentary about that technolgy, 1967. It was new. Created by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce, founder of Intel. The original of 1958 only had one transistor. The integrated circuits were used in Apollo Guidance Computer, 1966.

[@paulgriffith9570]

Noyce came from Fairchild. Apollo used RTL

[@CATech1138]

@@paulgriffith9570planar tech was Hoerne's baby...greatest improvement to semiconductor tech besides actually using semi conductors

[@raindogred]

Bob Noyce, who was one of the original traiterous 8, who left Shockley's company and started Fairchild Semiconductor, paved the way with his patents for manufacturing silicon transistors. At around the same time the first silicon transistors were being produced he realised that whole integrated circuits could be done similarly. probably not long after this video was produced he left Fairchild, and started Intel with Gordon Moore (of Moore's law fame) where they went onto to pioneer the first microprocessor. He also mentored Steve Jobs in late 70s.. Not much talk about Noyce these days. Incidentally he was known as the Mayor of Silicone valley. what a man...

[@demef758]

Don't forget the other key founder of Intel: Andy Grove. Grove wrote the book on transistor fabrication. Noyce was an absolutely brilliant guy. Without question he is the founder of Silicon Valley. There will never be another like him, a true leader of men. (Sorry ladies, but that's the truth....)

[@Columba_Kos]

@ What you are seeing here are two IF strips manufactured by HH Scott during the mid to late 1960s. Scott worked with Fairchild on the development of integrated circuits for these IF (intermediate frequency) strips. The IF stage shown here is for a FM tuner, such as the late model Scott 312B, or the first generation 312C. The presenter is not entirely honest with the audience: The IF stage that he demonstrates as pre- IC has one integrated circuit, the very one that Fairchild developed for Scott. Also, the "new" IF strip that he is holding was never used in a production unit made by HH Scott, although it doubtless came from Scott. It was most likely used in a specialized device (such as a broadcast monitor) made by Scott's instruments division. By 1967, all Scott IF stages, in FM tuners, FM receivers, and AM-FM receivers used IC's exclusively.

[@MichiganPeatMoss]

First heard of Fairchild when our "Channel F" video game system arrived by mail order one snowy day in 1981. :)

[@stephanesonneville]

52y after, DIP are still shipped in the same tubes.

[@cheponis]

Why do our British friends call these 'DIL' ? I know what it stands for, but the US, where this package was invented, called them DIPs. How did EU start calling them "DILs" ?

[@dreamyrhodes]

@@cheponis We call them DIP in Germany

[@cheponis]

@@dreamyrhodes Proving once again the Superior Technical Choices of our German Friends! Thanks for fixing my overgeneralization.

[@peplegal8253]

@@cheponis : DIL is the name of the format...DIP means DIL using (cheaper) Plastic material.

[@cheponis]

@@peplegal8253 So, DIL,P ? ;-) As compared with DIL,Ceramic...

[@yourrich]

thanks! i've seen a bunch of these vids on this subject, and this one is the only one that i really been able to understand. Plus its datedness is entertaining. Great vid!

[@chrisfelan2665]

During this video from 7:20 to 12:45 this guy describes my modern day job in the simplest form. But today’s process in the fab is obviously much more advanced.

[@predatortheme]

yeah back then you could still understand and follow each circuit wire with the finger...

[@VoidHalo]

Good to know. I just ate several transistors and this makes me feel good about it.

[@macfixer01]

Obviously it was William Schallert who narrated the commercials. His voice is very distinctive.

[@radiofun232]

Absolutely beautiful, also now 8 dec. 2020.

[@ONRIPRESENCE]

From 1965 to 1975, Fairchild Semiconductor employed Navajo people from my tribe to build Fairchild 9040 chips in Shiprock, NM, on the tribe. It somehow feels a bit like lost history and is one I will be telling in my talks as a quantum chip engineer. Also, thanks for this video. - Onri

[@djtreq]

i really like the graphic design on that advertisement IC info packet / spec sheet booklet.

[@RoughTake]

This is how I spend my Saturday nights babbyy :P !

[@hildapp7]

That was awesome! Thanks for sharing this video

[@apl175]

I've written in to Fairchild for my catalog and applications notes 19:15.

[@mibo747]

STUNNING DOCUMENT Techniques used until now

[@6teeth318-w5k]

Music is always cool in these old clips. :)

[@richardhall9815]

Just four years after this video came out, Intel introduced the world's first microprocessor. Crazy.

[@discovertree55]

I’m sure Edward F Harris is thrilled that his social security number, birthdate and salary are shown at 23:15. 1967 was certainly a different time.

[@the_eminent_Joshua_E_Hrouda]

Might've been a fictional record for the film maker

[@mcbrianmiller1264]

This is an awesome awesome video. Thanks for the Upload

[@FrancisMaxino]

Looking at this video it appears ICs haven't actually done anything but become smaller and more refined and are essentially still pretty much the same.

[@ramencurry6672]

Very nice. I own some Fairchild transistors in my audio electronics like guitar pedals and home recording stuff. Excellent stuff

[@hokuspokus8570]

50 years pass away and we can't still do this process in home damn ;)

[@radioamigahualpin]

jajajajajajaj

[@skilz8098]

Give it some time; and we might soon be able to 3D print our own programmable ICs! 3D printing is still in its infancy!

[@bryceforsyth8521]

a few folk have gotten rather close.

[@ciano5475]

You can try. :) See the work of Sam Zeloof. kzbin.info/aero/PLUEEHWqof4O0ygguwmay_-X40EKWX0jPU

[@CriswellKOL]

@@NerdyNEET PCBs yes, but integrated circuits involve far more miniaturization and a separate clean room for each step in IC fabrication.

[@odiadisylvester867]

Wow I love this and I'm satisfied.. Thanks

[@davidmaddison2628]

Outstanding and historic film.

[@cosimoto1]

I was reading about the dawn of IC Technology in Popular Electronics as it was unfolding! I remember a technically minded friend of mine talking with me saying "There's one.. that's an IC"! Seems like a lifetime ago! \

[@wiiu7640]

Does the address for the book and pamphlet still exist?

[@RayR]

Amazing. Simply amazing.

[@bobl78]

what is a lifetime control transistor ?

[@williamanderson6801]

13:52 "...the idea that you're going to build a tasty but inedible sandwich." HAHA fucking helarious

[@the_eminent_Joshua_E_Hrouda]

15:01 actually. Would you mind editing your comment?

[@GarrettBroadnax]

I want that pamphlet or book at 18:00, but can't find it anywhere on the Internet. Does anyone have an idea of where I might find it?

[@GarrettBroadnax]

+ungratefulmetalpansy tried. UIUC had a version of one but not for purchase

[@LouSaydus]

General Electrical Engineering with IC design descriptions and much much more www.rollanet.org/~n0klu/Ham_Radio/(eBook)%20Electronics%20-%20The%20Electrical%20Engineering%20Handbook.pdf IC Basics Primer learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/integrated-circuits/all.pdf The Legendary 555 timer www.jameco.com/Jameco/Products/ProdDS/2243840KitInstructions.pdf The first (of an excellent series) video PBS made about computer science basics kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWbRpJ6gj8R6pas

[@kyledailey]

*_Can the US still design the circuits and manufacture design, processes, personal/robotic processes?_*

[@josiahsuarez]

blast from the past

[@toresbe]

It really took me by surprise when he compared the price of silicon ingot to diamond. Yikes, we've gotten better at that, too.

[@ericbana191]

The base for every other technologies we are enjoying in 2023. I'm wondering if these books are still available for reading.

[@TWak4ord]

somewhere I have an old Fairchild catalog from when I was @ State Tech. I forget what did Fairchild merge into/ become?

[@paulgriffith9570]

Fairchild Camera and Instrument was bought by Schlumberger and eventually spun back off and still exists today..

[@estebanquito545]

cant believe these kind of programmes were broadcasted on public tv!

[@0MoTheG]

So all the capacitors have a common plate that is also the bulk of all the transistors?

[@demef758]

No. The bottom "plates" could be isolated by a deep diffusion of oxide, or a deep diffusion of P or N material that would be reversed biased, effectively isolating the plate. They knew what they were doing. Some seriously smart people back then, led by Mr. Noyce, the driving force behind the innovation.

[@uasserkamal2002]

that is what i looked for.....thx very much for that

[@jeffreydrhodes]

Will you be putting any videos of Edgar Codd?

[@estebanquito545]

another thing that is impressive is the tooling to make these ic's, the same goes for auto manufacturers their tooling is impressive

[@StreetArtistsOfTheWorld]

I want those books! I wonder If I still send a return envelope to Fairchild if I'll get a reply! :p

[@jvolstad]

The mandatory white shirt. IBM would be proud.

[@ragegamer6723]

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Steve Wozniak were given so many props and attention. However, these guys would've ended up your average person just like you and me if it weren't for Jack Kilby. Now this man I've never heard of in my 44 years on this earth. Until recently. Look him up.

[@Milnoc]

It's a good thing their reliability claims turned out to be very true, even on circuits containing millions of individual transistors. Can you imagine how disreputable this video could have become if integrated circuits turned out to be monumental lemons?

[@BM-jy6cb]

If they had, you 'd probably not even be aware of its existence - it would be sat in a dusty cupboard, unseen for decades. Ironic that its predictions of their potential has enabled it to be shown to a new generation. And jolly interesting too!

[@f0cusNa0]

amazing to think of how far we have advanced since then

[@ThedudeMMXlll]

It would be awesome, if they make a movie out this invention.

[@f0cusNa0]

i would wish i had some of those old books to look at, it would be soo cool xD

[@deepakunoffice]

HOW CAN WE GET THIS BOOK -VERY INTERESTING

[@yashwanthn9697]

Have you got it?

[@1N73RC3P7OR]

It's easy! All you need is a pencil. Just write to: Fairchild TV Briefing Box 1058, Mountain View, California

[@ernststavroblofeld1961]

What about photonic induction?

[@ciano5475]

It's married and doesn't make video anymore. :( kzbin.info

[@americanspirit8932]

Nobody ever mentioned who started everything the granddaddy AT&T Bell Labs invented the transistor I believe it was 1947? I work for AT&T for 36 years and proud of it great company

[@k7iq]

Yes, this is a GReAT video ! I notice that how they speak hasn't changed much in newer IC company technical-ish videos... I mean, their speech is somewhat robotic and they are obviously not public speakers in real life. So must be real engineers I guess !

[@VideoNOLA]

Did you ever get a copy? None on eBay or Amazon. :-/

[@Elfdogable]

I envision Woz having watched this in his early years.

[@user-be7gj3jp4u]

I love it! Thanks for the upload.

[@xerxespamplemousse6622]

My dad worked on the probe machines for Fairchild, those machines that tested the circuits before they cut the wafers up. When the guys that started Fairchild left to start Intel, my dad left Fairchild and started a company manufacturing probe cards and probe machines. Intel was their biggest customer, I'm guessing because my dad and his partners knew the Intel founders personally.

[@DavidMolnarProd1]

I think the narrarator of the commercials was actor william schallert

[@edgeeffect]

WOW! CNC wire wrapping... That's like "yesterday's tomorrow today"!!! Bet that pack of technical/advertising literature would fetch a pretty penny on E. Bay now. *** VINTAGE ****

[@quadrant2005]

Thank you so much for posting this video i found it very interesting and really informative.. regards Richard

[@Airobatorman]

thx for oploading

[@8BitNaptime]

I'd love one of those 1967 circuit boards filled with flat packs.

[@cammorris55]

Great history lesson.

[@the_eminent_Joshua_E_Hrouda]

Harry Sello looks so much like Tony Goldwyn (played Carl Bruner in Ghost (1990)) !!

[@iseeu-fp9po]

There is a video where Peter Gabriel uses a Fairlight Sampler in 1982, I believe. It's quite interesting and shows the early days of sampling technology. One of those machines cost a whopping 10.000 pounds which is a lot even now, but back then it must have been astronomical.

[@GazingElement]

Hi, I would like to edit some of this footage in a documentary. I was wondering if this video is actually public domain content? Or if someone reserves its copyright.

[@eskoj0nes]

You should be able to look up the catalog numbers in the video description Catalog Number: 102651800 Lot Number: X3929.2007 Hope that helps Edit: Just googled for the Lot Number and found the link on the Computer History website, www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102651800 Perhaps send them an email to clarify the copyright status.

[@agdobleu]

this is so interesting, really cool. Is this the Hall of Justice of the superfriends at 22:22 ? hahaha

[@Seydaschu]

Hmm... They made the Channel F, right? It's a bit older than the Atari 2600. It was the 1st home video game console with interchangeable game cartridges! I'm sure they're more famous for this IC tech now.

[@brosephjames]

Fairchild had a lot of subsidiary companies in lots of industries (Look up vintage Fairchild audio compressors highly sought after in the recording industry, used by The Beatles etc) . Their lasting legacy today is probably as the indirect grandfather company of Intel and AMD (through big engineer departures)

[@paulgriffith9570]

Yeah Fairchild made a few mistakes like Channel F, bipolar over CMOS, the F8 microprocessor but they had the fastest chips in the 100K ECL, FAST TTL and spawned Intel, AMD etc. Its sad that people these days don't know why its called Silicone Valley when everything now is a software startup.

[@stuartthegrant]

What an interesting vidio. Thanks for posting..

[@renekenshin6573]

This is cool thanks for upload

[@Neceros]

I wish they would have showed the commercials.

[@the_eminent_Joshua_E_Hrouda]

They did. They were Fairchild ads. 1 per ad break