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COMPUTER & ELECTRONICS HISTORY TIMELINE
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A watch is now possible with movies, on-demand video, television cable-like programming, a moving map GPS that tells where to turn, video teleconferencing, and much more.  Dick Tracy would be jealous!  (picture and history timeline below music controls)

For recent Technology Historical events please check out the links down the right side of DesignAVS Corporation Weblog.  If you have any ideas to for articles for us to write or links emails are appreciated.  We hope to make this the best it can be and is a work in progress. 

Timeline of Technology with History & Links:

• 2007 June 22 - A study released says YouTube is 10% of all Internet traffic and 20% of all HTTP traffic and we believe it.  Video files are huge when compared to an email.  YouTube videos are still shown in little windows that look and sound terrible: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1exROcpBjw&feature=related 
• 2003 Forward to the Present - More will be added here soon.  Some more information can be found on digital video at the  DesignAVS Corp Blog. 
• 2003 December 17 - Long-awaited Linux kernel released December 17.  Linux 2.6 has much better 64-bit speed and support.
• 2003 November 28 - Toshiba and NEC get new DVD format approved for next-generation discs.
• 2003 November 25 - Eugene Kleiner Silicon Valley pioneer dies at 80.
• 2003 November 24 - Keep your cell phone number and switch service carriers.  Number portability is expected to spark migration of one in five US subscribers and many businesses.
• 2003 October 23 - PC sales strong as worldwide PC shipments climbed by 14.1% to 42.5 million units last quarter.
• 2003 October 21 - Intel CEO: California has lost its luster.  Oregon is the #1 Intel location counting workers, Arizona #2, overseas investment is growing where more new customers are and quality engineers are a fraction the cost.
• 2003 October 20 - Intel, iAnywhere team up for Wi-Fi.
• 2003 October 16 - Sony, Intel harmonize for mobile music, images, videos and other content for portable devices that use Intel chips.
• 2003 October 15 - LCD flat television sales to boom  more affordable by 2005.
• 2003 October 13 - Intel improves server storage and network performance with new enterprise I/O products some powered by Intel XScale® technology.
• 2003 October 7 - Broadcom's Wi-Fi AirForce One at $12 each add wireless to anything with 70% less transmit power, 80% less receive power, and 97% less standby power than a typical Intel Centrino Wi-Fi solution.
• 2003 October 3 - Study says Bluetooth shipments will double in 2003.
• 2003 September 30 - The Arapahoe Working Group (AWG), has completed Draft 1.0 of the Advanced Switching Specification and will transfer it to the newly formed Advanced Switching Interconnect SIG (ASI-SIG) later this year.
• 2003 September 30 - Microsoft targets 'digital home' living rooms with Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 to help computers work as a digital video recorder, music player, and image viewer.
• 2003 September 24 - Microsoft Windows XP to support AMD's 64-bit CPU first then Intel.  While 64-bit Linux use on AMD's Opteron microprocessor grows including a Los Alamos selection last month.
• 2003 September 18 - Intel demonstrates first PCI Express-based silicon, updates product roadmap, and introduces developer programs including an interoperability lab.
• 2003 September 17 - Intel silicon innovation of wireless on its CPUs, converged technologies will fuel future wireless communication growth.  
• 2003 September 9 - FDA approved the first Bluetooth system for medical purposes
• 2003 September 4 - Dell and Sony will build Media Center Personal Computers for new Microsoft Windows XP version.
• 2003 September - Major TV makers (Sony, Hitachi, Toshiba, and Matsushita) with Intel create a standard to handle the video security problem not letting copy protected material out of the home network called Digital Transmission Content Protection over IP (DTCP).
• 2003 July 29 - In 2004 Intel will attempt to get #1 spot in server-chipsets from ServerWorks (a Broadcom division).
• 2003 July 25 - ATI vs. Nvidia a battle of the graphics giants heats up.
• 2003 July 23 - PCI-SIG forms committee to focus on communications Industry.
• 2003 July 21 - Bridge specification paves road for PCI Express from today's PCI/PCI-X buses.
• 2003 March 12 - Intel Announces the Centrino mobile technology including CPU, chipset, and 802.11 (Wi-Fi) wireless networking to enable truly portable PCs with six hours of battery life (Intel brand intro).  McDonalds, airports, and others install wireless networks to give users convenient web access. 
• 2003 February 3 - Global jobs shift as US Companies design chips overseas with  growing investments to cut costs.  Some locals are concerned about our latest EDA simulation IC technology being sold in other countries as gives them what they need to pass the US eventually in electronic development.   India, China, Russia, Taiwan, and others have benefited.
• 2002 August 8 - The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to require electronics manufacturers to include digital tuners in all new television sets by 2007.   This will bring consumer electronics and computers technology closer together.
• 2002 July 22 - Xilinx is first with PCI Express implementation IP while its limited functionality leaves room for improvement by others.
• 2001 September - Shaun Maki, founded DesignAVS Corporation to provide the best customer service to help grow new companies through proven methods and direct experiences.  DesignAVS designs websites, does digital video online consulting, and provides SEO services.  Shaun Maki's resume is HERE.
• 2000 - Intel releases the Pentium 4 with 42M transistors.  Moore's Law predicted 40 years of growth.
• 2000 June 8 - Ericsson demos first Bluetooth phone.
• 2000 - Internet users by the end of 1999 is 225 million and growing fast.
• 2000 - Verisity Specman proves functional verification automation can help build new testbenches three times faster once people are trained.  The problem is it takes a year for an engineer to learn how to run the Specman new 'e' language in a slow non-simulator environment which gets in the way of acceleration.  Because 80% of design is validation, with Intel running three validation engineers for each design engineer in HDL/C, March 2001 Verisity becomes VRST on Nasdaq and close the year as the #1 IPO stock in 2001.  The Centrino processor, Banias, is the first big Specman application at Intel.  
• 1998 - Dr. Chilai Huang Founded Avery Design Systems to fill customer EDA needs for verification and performance without running a new language.  
• 1997 - There are 171 countries online.
• 1995 - For the first time Internet-related businesses go public on the stock market. Netscape's first-day NASDAQ stock rating is the third largest ever.
• 1995 - Verilog became IEEE Standard 1364. 
• 1994 - Mosaic inventor Marc Andreesen and Silicon Graphics founder Jim Clark start Netscape Communications Corporation. They release Netscape Navigator, the first really popular, feature-rich web browser. 
• 1993 - Alcatel creates the First DSL modem chipset to allow broadband connection to the Internet over standard copper twisted pair phone lines (the speed of each connection depends on the distance to the phone switch). 
• 1993 - Mosaic, a landmark web browser, becomes publicly available. Users like its graphic interface.
• 1993 - an IEEE working group forms to formalize Verilog as a standard. 
• In the early-1990s Chi-Lai Huang Ph.D lead logic synthesis at Cadence.  Verilog HDL was invented as simulation language. Use of Verilog for synthesis was a complete afterthought.  Chilai also was able to sharpen his skills as a C/C++ expert.
• 1991 - Open Verilog International (OVI) created. 
• 1990 - Arpanet, the government-sponsored ancestor of the Internet, is dismantled. The extremely popular Internet now spreads out over thousands of networks, and has simply outgrown its Arpanet roots. The World, a company based in Brookline, Massachusetts, becomes the first commercial provider of dial-up Internet access.
• 1990 - Cadence Design Systems decided to open the Verilog language to the public.  Up until then Verilog HDL was a proprietary language.
• 1990 - By the end of the '80s, there are 290 thousand Internet users.
• 1989 - Intel releases the 80486 with 1.18M transistors (25MHz, 20 MIPS) to a market with competition for the first time.
• 1987 March - Digital Video Interactive (DVI) technology is demonstrated by the General Electric/David Sarnoff Research Center. It gives 70 minutes of full-motion video from a conventional CD-ROM disc.  Intel then creates Indeo Video from DVI which Ligos now owns.
• 1986 - In order to improve Internet access around the country, the National Science Foundation (NSF) establishes five supercomputing centers connected by a central "backbone." The centers are located in Princeton, NJ; Pittsburgh, PA; San Diego, CA; Urbana, IL; and Cornell, NY.
• 1985 - Intel releases the 80386 with 275,000 transistors (16MHz, 5 MIPS).
• 1985 - Verilog HDL originated at Automated Integrated Design Systems (later renamed Gateway Design Automation). The company was privately held at that time by Dr. Prabhu Goel, the inventor of the PODEM test generation algorithm.  Chilai Huang worked with Prabhu at Wang and was asked to be one of the four Gateway co-founders. Verilog HDL design was lead by Phil Moorby, who later became the Chief Designer for Verilog-XL and the first Corporate Fellow at Cadence Design Systems. Gateway Design Automation grew rapidly with the success of Verilog-XL and was finally acquired by Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, CA in 1989.
• 1984 - A central and organized Domain Name Server (DNS) is created. Domain names are the "people-friendly" alphabetical names (www.designavs.com) that the DNS translates into "computer-friendly" numeric addresses ( something like: 216.219.254.234).
• 1983 - TCP/IP becomes the Internet's standard for computer to computer communication. 
• 1982 - Arpanet, the Internet ancestor, now links well over 200 computers at university, government, and military sites across the country. A new site joins up every 20 days.
• 1982 - Intel releases the 80286 with 120,000 transistors (8MHz, 0.9 MIPS).
• 1980 - As the 1970s come to a close, there are 188 Internet-linked computers.
• 1971 - Intel invented the first commercial microprocessor the 4004 with 2,250 transistors. It had a clock speed of 108,000 (108KHz). The 4004 could carry out 60,000 instructions per second (0.06 MIPS); and was produced with a 10 micron resolution.
• 1969 - The world's first wide-area computer network, Arpanet, is up and running! It connects scientists at four universities: the University of California at Los Angeles, University of California at Santa Barbara, the Stanford Research Institute, and the University of Utah.
• 1968 - Intel's first year (Intel stands for integrated electronics).  The company is founded in Santa Clara, CA on Coffin Lane (later Intel was able to have the road's name changed to Bowers Ave).
• 1965 - Gordon Moore noticed number of transistors was doubling every 12 months while the price was unchanged.  This rate slowed down in the 80's to every 18 months.  "Moore's Law" true through at least 2010 says the number of transistors on a chip doubles every 18 months.
• 1961 - Fairchild Camera's Robert Noyce creates first planar integrated circuit (a chip).   A picture is in the link below.
• 1958 - Texas Instruments' Jack Kilby (and Fairchild independently) create the first integrated circuit device(s).  Here is a great historical presentation with more information including pictures.
• 1954 January 1 - First Coast to Coast color TV broadcast.  It was the Tournament of Roses Parade
• 1954 - First single crystal Silicon.
• 1952 - First single crystal Germanium.
• 1947 - Invention of the transistor by William Shockley at Bell Labs; replaces the vacuum tube; made out of germanium and easily contaminated.
• 1940s - Cartoon hero 'Dick Tracy' had a cool teleconferencing watch he used for communication with headquarters.  What is possible today would have more features!  
• 1928 July 2 - First TV station, W3XK, begins broadcasting.

Shaun Maki, the founder of DesignAVS Corporation, is a degreed electrical engineer who has worked in technology for over 26 years.  If this explanation isn't enough, Shaun's resume is HERE. He was part of introducing the 80386 / 80486 / Pentium-family CPUs and applied his skills to winning designs for all of Intel's many chips, boards, systems, and software solutions during a time when Intel grew from <$1B to >$27B.  And from nearly zero % to over half systems systems revenue at the same time.  Shaun was a "field sales team reviewer" of "Intel Inside" when Intel branded itself.  He helped pick: the logo, sound, advertising, media, combined with brilliant marketing behind the scenes to keep a price war from happening at the buyers desk as Intel met competition for the first time from Advanced Micro Devices ( AMD ) and Cyrix Corporation for 80386 / 80486 CPUs.  In the late 80s, at Intel Shaun Maki was part of introducing the first video on computers, Digital Video Interactive (DVI), bought from GE created by David Sarnoff research laboratories those who created the VCR tape. In the early 90s, also at Intel, he helped introduce Indeo Video which is a scaleable video algorithm where quality depends on CPU horsepower.  Neither were a huge success to Intel as did not have video quality acceptable to people who were used to watching television (240i then - 240 lines of vertical resolution and interlaced). For the last ten years Shaun has helped companies like Intel, Cisco, and PMC-Sierra create better chips, networks, boards, systems, and software. When selling Verisity Specman to Intel Shaun Maki's first challenge was to lead a team to verify the new bus called 'The Magic Bus' then 'Arapahoe' internally at Intel.  From early specifications fixing bugs to make it work to send and receive packets for the first time on the bus today known as PCI Express (PCIe).  Now the standard graphics bus in all PCs from Microsoft / Intel AND the Apple Macs now built on Intel architectures.  Shaun Maki went on to help create PCIe Advanced Switching (www.asi-sig.org) and helped make verification software for the new serial bus.  Maybe someday soon it will be common to transfer huge video files between machines or devices.  And to collaborate sharing extra-cycles on networked computers when USB 2.0's speed falls short.  This is especially critical when sharing video files that even when compressed 10 to 50 times are HUGE!  DesignAVS Corporation was an early member of the Intel Developer Network for PCIe and also an early member of the Intel Developer Network for the Digital Home to help make global standards.  Computers are just starting to get into living rooms as a main entertainment device and that trend is expected to continue.  We almost don't watch TV anymore as would rather get video on demand for what we want to watch when we want to watch it (rather than being fed what somebody else wants us to see which is what TV Channels and Cable Channels are).  Shaun with his DesignAVS network team of highly skilled consultants can get the job done better for less.  We can properly distribute HD video online today with clearly better audio and visual quality to entertain and inform with more impact.  Have entertainment online everywhere superior to Comcast, Direct TV, Digital Television, Dish Network.  Show your video results better online in a website or weblog - please let us know at info@designavs.com how we might help you grow.

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