biography
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Hoff, Ted
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popular name of Marian Edward Hoff
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| lived:
| (1937– )
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| biography:
| Creator of the microprocessor, born in Rochester, New York, USA. He studied at Stanford, and became a researcher for the Intel Co, who were developing an integrated circuit for a Japanese manufacturer of desk-top calculators. With a knowledge of computers (then still very large machines) he designed the computer-on-a-chip microprocessor (1968), which came on the market as the Intel 4004 (1971), starting the microcomputer industry. |
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