That's a good overview, and it made me think of a parallel list of chips that got quite a lot of press but did not shake the world much after all.<p>Off the cuff, Intel would have two solid entries with the iAPX 432 and the Itanium, there's probably some Lisp machine and putative 'Japanese 5th gen computer' silicon to add, and maybe the Transmeta Crusoe could have honors in both lists ...
Great selection, great article. The only one I find missing would be the GPU of Nvidia's 8800 graphics card, I belive it was the first GPU that could be used for GPGPU. (Correct me if I'm wrong).
"Camenzind was working as a consultant to Signetics, a local semiconductor firm. The economy was tanking. He was making less than US $15 000 a year and had a wife and four children at home."<p>$15,000 in the summer of 1970 is equivalent to about $97,000 today.