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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. If not for Ted Hoff's curiosity, we'd all be using typewriters to text ...