Hello all, The official announcement is July 5th, but I wanted to give you folks a heads up that we've soft-launched the 2018 class of inductees for *IEEE Spectrum*'s Chip Hall of Fame, which tries to tell the stories behind the invention of influential integrated circuits. This years inductees are: · The Intel 4004, the world’s first microprocessor on a single chip. Intended as a quick side-venture to make some money for then-fledging Intel, this project almost crashed and burned due to a lack of staff. · The RCA CDP 1802 processor, which helped pioneer the concept of having computers in the home for learning and fun. But probably the greatest achievement of Joe Weisbecker’s visionary CPU was when it was used as the brains of the NASA Galileo probe that orbited Jupiter. · The Photobit PB-100 image sensor. Spun out from an attempt to make faster, cheaper, and better cameras for NASA’s later space probes, this sensor first appeared in inexpensive webcams, and its technology became the basis for the smartphone camera revolution. · The Philips TDA7000 radio receiver. This FM radio IC was small enough to put into a pencil, and showed up in countless gadgets. But getting the chip into production over corporate resistance required sneaking illicitly-made demo radios to Japan in order to stoke demand. · The Nvidia NV20 graphics processing unit. Nvidia gambled that making this, the first programmable GPU, would be a desirable boost to developers looking to feed the demand for ever more realistic video games. The NV20 serendipitously opened the door to today’s machine-learning revolution when such programmable GPUs turned out to be the perfect hardware for training deep neural networks. All can be found here: https://spectrum.ieee.org/static/chip-hall-of-fame