Summary : Pat E. Haggerty broke semiconductors out of old-guard electronics companies
Inducted 2016, when the HoF was opened beyond Chip Making to include people who changed the business
Pat E. Haggerty broke semiconductors out of old-guard electronics companies
- Military needed reliable transistors
- Old-guard electronics companies were not delivering
- They simply moved too slow
- “One day this Texan walks into” Howard Moss’s office at the U.S. Army Signal Corps Lab, Ft. Monmouth, N.J.
- Pulls a beaker, a jug of water, a Bunsen burner, and a transistor radio out
- Brings the water to a boil, turns on the radio, and drops it into the water
- As the radio played in boiling water, Haggerty said. “Mr. Moss, I want to talk to you about reliability.”
- Howard Moss wrote him a check that day for a contract
- With it, the modern semiconductor industry was born
- An industry that would epitome of fast product development cycle times
