After getting the world’s first microprocessor, the 4004, into silicon, Dr Federico Faggin set about his next task at Intel – designing the first 8-bit microprocessor – the 8008. “It was architecturally a better machine than the 4004 – the 8008 was the ancestor of the Pentium Pro” recalls Faggin. In 1969, Victor Poor vice president of Computer Terminal …
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