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.