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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Busicom had hired Intel to develop a set of custom chips for a low-cost calculator and had sent three engineers to Santa Clara to work on the chip designs. San Antonio, Texas, which, architected by Computer Terminals, was named the 8008. And finally, they estimated that sales might total only 2000 chips a year.

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