“Custom masked ROMs are heading for trouble”, Intersil’s marketing manager, Colin Kidd, was quoted as saying in February 1972, “by next year, the market will have grown to the point where some five semiconductor manufacturers will each need to ship around 100 different ROM patterns a week – and that’s without reckoning programme changes, errors and so on. The costs and delays are going to be horrifying. Everything therefore points to the electrical programming of units – in the field if necessary.”
Surprise, surprise, Intersil was introducing a 1K PROM.
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