While doing research for our articles about inventing the integrated circuit, the calculator, and the microprocessor, one name kept popping which was new to me, Federico Faggin. Yet this was a name I ...

“When I joined Intel it only had a hundred people”, recalls Federico Faggin, who designed the 4004, 8008 and 8080 and, after founding Zilog, the Z80, “Intel wasn’t making any money. It was struggling ...

The eighth, and last, in our Friday series on the early microprocessors is the story of Dr Federico Faggin, who, after getting the 4004, 8008 and 8080 to market at Intel, decides to strike out on his ...

UC Santa Cruz has received a $500,000 gift from physicist and technology innovator Federico Faggin, plus matching funds from the UC Regents, to establish a $1 million endowment for the Faggin Family ...

LOS ALTOS HILLS, Calif., Sept. 11, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Federico Faggin is recognized by Continental Who's Who as a Pinnacle Professional in the field of Non-Profit in recognition of his role as ...

Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil have postulated that one day, humans will be able to download their consciousness to a computer. Nonsense, replied Federico Faggin, the architect of the first ...

Today, President Serzh Sargsyan received the Honorary President of Synaptics Company Federico Faggin, who was awarded the Presidential Award 2012 for the global contribution to the area of Information ...

This week’s milestone in the history of technology is the birth of the microprocessor, allowing software—or "artificial intelligence"—to run everywhere. ‘General-purpose,’ [Intel’s marketing director ...

Forty years ago today, electronics and semiconductor trade newspaper Electronic News ran an advertisement for a new kind of chip. The Intel 4004, a $60 chip in a 16-pin dual in-line package, was an ...