Chapter 533 Development of Integrated Circuit Computers

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However, he knew that there would be competitors in a few years, but he was not afraid. Anyway, there won't be much bluefin tuna left over time on the Atlantic side. In the future, I still have to rely on the fishery to speak!

The next day, Shuichi Minamino went to Fujitsu.

When he came to Fujitsu's Minamino Hide, he went to the research institute to see what kind of progress the researchers had made recently.

Fujitsu's current business is mainly an exporting company of technical equipment such as telecommunications technology, computer development, and semiconductor manufacturing.

For this company, Shuichi Minamino is still very fond of it, after all, the communication industry, IT industry, semiconductors, etc., as well as computers are all relatively hot industries in the future. He has to get his Fujitsu company ready to grow now!

I'm going to kill Siemens in the future!

When he entered the research institute, these researchers all greeted Shuichi Minamino, and their attitude was respectful. No, because when he bought Fujitsu, he directly allocated $2 million to the institute as a research fund. This huge amount of money makes these researchers so grateful. They like to study things, but they can't do it without funding.

Anyway, they think this new boss is very arrogant!

"Hello chairman!" Sawajiri, as the director of this research institute, greeted him very respectfully when he saw Shuichi Minamino's arrival.

"Yes."

"How's the recent research on semiconductors and computers?" Shuichi Minamino asked. He cares more about these two things.

"Semiconductor research is still relatively slow, but there has been tremendous progress in computer research." Sawajiri Road.

"Oh, tell me about it."

"Previously, you have been emphasizing that you should abandon the research on transistor calculators and go directly to the research of integrated circuit computers. We now find that the use of integrated circuit calculators will make the computer smaller, faster calculation, and better in terms of heat dissipation. Although there is no success in the development of integrated circuit computers. However, we are confident that we will complete this research task by the end of this year. Sawajiri reported truthfully.

In fact, Fujitsu had been working on transistor computers before it was acquired. After all, crystal computers are still the mainstream research object in this era. As for integrated circuit computers, research in this area has not yet begun. However, the technology of integrated circuits has begun to be studied in recent years, but no one has yet applied it to computers.

When Shuichi Minamino bought the company, he asked them to start researching transistor computers and jump directly to research integrated circuit computers. To be honest, Sawajiri was very opposed at the time!

The main reason is that integrated circuits are not yet mature, but transistors are still relatively mature technology at present.

But his arms can't reach his thighs, who is called Shuichi Minamino, chairman. Therefore, he had no choice but to give up continuing to study transistors and calculators, and started zero-based integrated circuit computer scientific research.

After more than a year, he found that putting integrated circuits into a computer is definitely a very good way!

"Very good, we must continue to work hard in this area, and at the same time, we must speed up the research on semiconductors!" Shuichi Minamino groaned.

"Yes, Chairman!"

Shuichi Minamino, who is well aware of the trend of historical development, knows that the history of computer development is divided into five stages!

The first stage, that is, the era of tube computers (1946-1957), the main characteristics of computers in this stage are the use of tube elements as the basic devices, the use of optical screen tubes or mercury delay circuits as memory, the input and output mainly use perforated cards or paper tape, large volume, high power consumption, slow speed, small storage capacity, poor reliability, difficult maintenance and expensive. In software, applications are usually written in machine language or assembly language. As a result, computers in this era were mainly used for scientific computing. At this time, the size of a computer was the size of a house!

The second stage, transistor computer (1957-1964) In the mid-50s of the 20th century, the emergence of transistors made the computer production technology have been fundamentally developed, and the transistor replaced the electron tube as the basic device of the computer, and the magnetic core or magnetic drum was used as the memory, which was greatly improved compared with the first generation of computers in terms of overall performance. At the same time, programming languages have also appeared, such as Fortran, Cobol, Algo160 and other high-level computer languages. Transistor computers are being used in scientific computing, and they are also beginning to be used in data processing and process control. At this time, the size of a computer is about the size of a wardrobe!

The third stage of small and medium-scale integrated circuit computers (1964-1971) In the mid-60s of the 20th century, with the development of semiconductor technology, integrated circuits were successfully manufactured. Small- and medium-sized integrated circuits have become the main components of computers, and the main memory has gradually transitioned to semiconductor memory, making the size of the computer smaller, greatly reducing the power consumption of the computer during calculation, and further improving the reliability of the computer due to the reduction of solder joints and connectors. In terms of software, with the standardized programming language and the basic language of human machine conversation, its application field has also been further expanded. At this time, the size of a computer is about the size of a computer desk.

The fourth stage, large-scale and VLSI computers (1971-2016).

The fifth stage, the fifth generation of computers refers to the new generation of computers with artificial intelligence (future)!

In other words, this era is still in the second stage, and human beings are still keen to study transistor computers!

Integrated circuits were only introduced in the mid-60s.

In other words, it will be five or six years before it opens.

So Fujitsu is currently the same, and it has been working on transistor computers before.

After the acquisition of Shuichi Minamino, they directly gave up the research on transistor computers and directly researched and developed integrated circuit computers. Because there is nothing wrong with studying crystal computers, it is a waste of time!

He not only made the institute study integrated circuit computers, but also increased the study of semiconductor technology, because semiconductor technology and computers are inseparable. Fortunately, Fujitsu has a background, and these researchers are still relatively powerful.

An integrated circuit is a miniature electronic device or component. Using a certain process, the transistors, resistors, capacitors, inductors and other components and wiring required in a circuit are interconnected together, made on a small piece or several small pieces of semiconductor wafer or dielectric substrate, and then packaged in a tube shell to become a miniature structure with the required circuit function.

The emergence of integrated circuits is a new type of semiconductor device developed in the late 50s and 60s.

So now it's 1959, integrated circuits have appeared, so Shuichi Minamino didn't ask those researchers to research and develop out of thin air, but on this basis, they made it more perfect and used on computers.