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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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His passion for the field led him from New York City’s used electronics stores to elite university laboratories, through the intense early years of the microprocessor revolution and the tumult of the video game industry, and ultimately to his job today: high-tech private eye. San Jose, Calif., in Rochester, NY.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

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In the normal course of events, a small tester—a logic analyzer with a personal computer interface—in the design department is working on a new chip’s circuits long before the larger testers in product engineering get in on the act. and Convergent Technologies (San Jose, Calif., Unix Software Operation, Morristown, N.J.),

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