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 ...
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 ...
NPR turned 50 this year. And to celebrate, we're marking some of the big events of 1971. If you're listening to this on a smartphone or on the internet or in a car full of computer chips, that is only ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A recent correspondent objected to my assertion that all NASA has ever given us -- other than some bodies and scrap metal strewn over the landscape -- is “Tang!” and a toilet plunger. The writer ...
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 ...
As NPR marks its 50th anniversary, we look back at an innovation that also changed the world in 1971: the unveiling of the first commercially produced microprocessor. NPR turned 50 this year. And to ...
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