On November 15th 1971 Intel’s 4004, the world’s first microprocessor, was advertised in Electronics News as a ‘micro-programmable computer on a chip’. Shortly afterwards at a computer conference Ted Hoff, who invented the chip, remembers an indignant engineer complaining to Stan Mazor: ‘How dare you say you’ve got a computer on a chip?’ “Mazor handed him …
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