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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.
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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...
In 1975 he started a group to work on large-scale integration for use in the telephone industry, resulting in various commercial products: first commercial monolithic telephone (named "CODEC"), [11] first commercial switched-capacitor filter (for use with CODEC), a microprocessor for real-time digitizing analog signals , and speech recognition ...
May 4, 2011 · Ted Hoff was employee number 12 at Intel. Working under Silicon Valley icons Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, he helped to invent the first ever microprocessor.
American engineer Ted Hoff (born 1937) is credited with changing the face of the world as one of the key people behind the creation of the first microprocessor. While working for Intel in 1969, he developed the architecture that made a single-chip Central Processing Unit (CPU) possible.
Apr 15, 2020 · As the electrical engineer responsible for the Busicom design, Ted Hoff thought that it could be achieved with a 4-bit central processing unit (CPU) on a single microchip.
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Ted Hoff was the first to recognize that Intel's new silicon-gated MOS technology might make a single-chip CPU possible if a simple enough architecture could be formed. Hoff developed this architecture with just over 2000 transistors.
