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Marcian Edward "Ted" Hoff Jr. (born October 28, 1937, in Rochester, New York) is one of the inventors of the microprocessor. [2] Education and work history. Hoff received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1958.
Marcian "Ted" Hoff, Jr. led the team at Intel that defined the architecture of the first single-chip computer CPU, after which the CPU was designed in the MOS group under different leadership.
- What Was Your Path to Intel?
- Tell Us About How The 4004 Came to be.
- How Did You Know That What You Came Out with Was A microprocessor?
- Of Course You Didn’T Envision The PC at The time.
- So How Many Transistors Were on That Processor?
- So How Did Your Career Evolve After The 4004 Project?
- From There You Went to Atari?
- This Is A Company You Joined?
I used to play with vacuum tube circuits when I was in high school. When I graduated in 1954, I got a summer job in the company where my father worked. I always considered myself lucky to have had that job because I got to work with both magnetic cores and transistors. The transistor was only seven years old, and core memory was the major technolog...
Intel was founded with the idea of doing semiconductor memory. Up until that time, most computer memory used small magnetic cores strung onto wire arrays. In most cases, they were wired by hand and some of these cores weren’t much bigger than the tip of a mechanical pencil. When I interviewed with Bob Noyce, he asked me what I thought would be the ...
Our initial goal was never to make a microprocessor, only to solve this particular customer's problem, this calculator design problem. But there were several aspects of the design that became more evident as it was pursued. One was, being more general purpose and faster than the original design, we figured it might be useful for a broader range of ...
The PC? No. Our expected usage was for what today is called embedded control. I fault the media for not even being aware of embedded control and yet it’s a huge market for microcontrollers and microprocessors. It wasn’t that we wouldn’t have liked to have had our own personal computers built using microprocessors, but the other support devices, lik...
With the 4004, I don’t know the exact number. In fact, Dr. Faggin and I each came up with a different number. He had used a form of programmable logic array. We had designed the instruction set in a way we hoped such an array could be used. I believe Dr. Faggin counted all possible sites in the array and reported 2,300 transistors for the 4004 chip...
Around 1975, Bob Noyce asked me if I could take a look at the telephone industry to see if we could apply our semiconductor technology to telephony. I hired some people who had telephony experience and after some study decided to try to make what is called a CODEC, for coder/decoder. The CODEC does the standard conversions between analog and digita...
Intel moved the telephone group to Arizona, but I liked California and I didn’t want to move there. For a while, I had a group at Intel looking at speech recognition, but then I was contacted by a head-hunter for Atari. I went to Atari in early 1983. Atari had some really advanced ideas. Unfortunately, Atari didn’t have good financial controls nor ...
While at Atari, Gary Summers headed their semiconductor design activity, and reported to me. After Atari was sold, we both left. About a year later, Gary started a company called Teklicon to do consulting to attorneys who were looking for either testimonial experts or advice about where to find particular art. Around 1986, I started working as an i...
Feb 1, 1994 · Hoff joined Faggin as a microprocessor evangelist, trying to convince people that general-purpose one chip computers made sense. Hoff said his toughest sell was to the Intel marketing department.
Apr 15, 2020 · Hoff came up with the idea of creating a universal processor on a single microchip, rather than a set of custom-designed circuits, and the microprocessor was born. What is a microprocessor?
Aug 30, 2016 · Three Proud Parents: Posing during induction ceremonies for the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1996, Federico Faggin, Marcian “Ted” Hoff Jr., and Stanley Mazor (from left) show off the pioneering microprocessor they created in the early 1970s, the Intel 4004. Photo: Paul Sakuma/AP Photos.
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Feb 1, 2006 · The First Micr oprocessor: An Interview with Mar cian (T ed) Hof f, Jr. EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION. Our guest in this issue is best known as the inventor of the first microprocessor (the. Intel...
