The Israeli Team That Rewrote the Rules of Memory Chips

In 1959 Robert Noyce co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor and the integrated circuit era began. But by the late 1960s, a small team of Israeli engineers—led by Dov Frohman—changed memory chips forever. Working at Intel's fledgling Israeli design center, Frohman invented the erasable programmable read-only memory, or EPROM. It let engineers erase a chip with ultraviolet light and reprogram it. That breakthrough made microprocessors practical: without EPROM, software-based products like the Altair 8800 and the Apple II would have been far harder to build. This episode traces how a handful of engineers in a Haifa office park turned a reliability problem into a $60 billion memory market, and why Intel's willingness to bet on a remote design lab changed the geography of high tech. #DovFrohman #EPROM #IntelIsrael #MemoryChips #EPROM #Microprocessor #Altair8800 #AppleII #IsraeliTech #Semiconductor #Fairchild #RobertNoyce #Haifa #UVErase #ROM #Technology #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo