Ted, Hoff, and Mazor build a 4004

The microprocessor is found almost everywhere. It is found in almost every computer, car, and medical device on the planet. Ted Hoff was the first one to realize that Intel's MOS technology could make a CPU chip possible. He developed the design with little over 2000 transistors. In 1969, a Japanese calculator company called Busicom asked Intel to finish the design. Ted Hoff decided it would be easier to create one chip for the calculator to operate from, instead of twelve. Also working on the CPU were Stanley Mazor and Federico Faggin. With their help, the CPU chip was sent to Busicom in 1971. The design for the 4004 chip was owned by Busicom, but Intel bought the design, and Busicom went out of business. Mazor, Hoff, and Faggin continued to build the 8008 and the 8080 CPU chips.

the invention of computers

In 1968 two men, Bob Noyce and Frank Moore, quit their engineering job at Fairchild Semiconductor Company. They raised $2.5 million dollars in just under two days to start their own business. They called their business Intel, short for Integrated Electronics. In 1969, a customer from Japan called Busicom to have 12 different custom chips designed. One of the Intel engineers thought that maybe they could build one chip to hold all of the information, instead of twelve. Federico Faggin, Ted Hoff, and Stan Mazor worked for 9 months on creating the new software. Finally, the chip was created. Busicom sold the design to Intel, and the next year Busicom went bankrupt. People everywhere had started using the 4004 chip in months. It was the world's first universal microprocessor. At 1/8th inch wide and 1/6th inch long, it held 2,300 MOS transistors.