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When a Japanese calculator company called Busicom asked Intel to make chips for a calculator it was not seen as a big deal. “The Busicom people arrived on a Friday (June 20th 1969). That night I went ...

On Friday July 11th, Ted Hoff told the story of how he invented the microprocessor. On Friday July 18th, Busicom’s Masatoshi Shima, told how he designed it. On Friday July 25th, Federico Faggin ...

The integrated chip greatly improved the use for transistors, but it could only do what it was originally programmed to do. It couldn't change programs, and it certainly couldn't remember anything.

Today marks the anniversary of the launch of the Xbox and Microsoft's Halo video game a decade ago, as we've chronicled in our coverage. But those launches would never have happened without today's ...

40 years after Intel patented the first microprocessor, BBC News talks to one of the key employees who made that world changing innovation happen. Ted Hoff saved his own life, sort of. Deep inside ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. Congratulations are in order for Marcian E. "Ted" Hoff, Jr.

"Ted" Hoff's career as an engineer began long before he invented the microprocessor at Intel. At age 15, he won a trip to Washington, D.C., and a $400 scholarship from the Westinghouse Science Talent ...