After developing the system logic for the 4004, Masatoshi Shima went back to Japan to work for Ricoh. But not for long. “One day a phone call came from Bob Noyce to the Ricoh directors,” recalls Shima, “Noyce asked them: ‘Please send Shima to Intel to develop the 8080′. I talked to Ricoh’s directors and they …
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