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.