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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Soon Mazor, then a research engineer at Intel, joined him, and the two pursued Hoff’s ideas, developing a simple instruction set that could be implemented with about 2000 transistors. San Antonio, Texas, which, architected by Computer Terminals, was named the 8008. But Hoff, with Noyce’s blessing, started working on the project.

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