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Federico Faggin
07 Sep 2026 · United States · Review
Walked the semiconductor gallery at the Computer History Museum with a friend who builds compilers. Seeing the 4004 layout blown up across a wall, I could still find the places where we ran out of room and improvised. The exhibit is careful and honest about how long the silicon gate work took.
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Jasprit Bumrah
Jasprit Bumrah 07 Sep 2026
The improvised sections are the ones students should study. Nobody teaches the compromises.
Keely Hodgkinson
Keely Hodgkinson 07 Sep 2026
Took my graduate class there in the spring. Half of them had never seen a mask layout.
Sarah Sjostrom
Sarah Sjostrom 07 Sep 2026
I wish the labels said more about the yield problems. Still the best gallery in the building.

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