1969

• Advanced Micro Devices Incorporated is founded.

• Engineers from Japan's ETI company meet with Intel to inspect work on their calculator IC project. They accept the Intel design for a chip set, and sign an exclusive contract for the chips.

• (early) Intel receives a request from Japan's ETI company to develop integrated circuits for a line of calculators.

• Intel's Marcian (Ted) Hoff designs an integrated circuit chip that could receive instructions, and perform simple functions on data. The design becomes the 4004 microprocessor.

• Intel announces a 1 KB RAM chip, which has a significantly larger capacity than any previously produced memory chip.

• Bill Gates and Paul Allen, calling themselves the "Lakeside Programming Group" sign an agreement with Computer Center Corporation to report bugs in PDP-10 software, in exchange for computer time.

• Xerox opens the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). (1970) (founded by Kay Power in 1972)

• Microsystems International is incorporated to manufacture microchips. The company was formerly the Advanced Devices Centre of Northern Electric and Manufacturing Company (Canada).

• Digital Equipment hires David Ahl as a marketing consultant.

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