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The original 'rock stars' who defined innovation and integration

posted by Bill Calder on October 20, 2009 at Technology@Intel

Today, a small team of engineers will be recognized at the Computer History Museum for designing the world’s first programmable microprocessor in 1971, a 4-bit parallel CPU with 2,300 transistors. That project, from a fledgling integrated memory manufacturer barely 3...

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Intel Chairman Craig Barrett on Intel's 40th Anniversary

posted by Ken Kaplan on July 20, 2008 at Technology@Intel

Sure, these processor would be great for powering traffic lights. You mean they want to use our chips to make Taxi meters? Imagine, those where conversations inside Intel back in the 1970s, in the years after making the world’s first...

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