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5 days ago · The Z80 was the brainchild of Federico Faggin, a key figure behind the creation of the Intel 8080. After leaving Intel in 1974, Faggin co-founded Zilog with Masatoshi Shima. The Z80 was released in July 1976. With the revenue from the Z80, the company built its own chip factories.
2 days ago · Three Intel engineers—Federico Faggin, Marcian (“Ted”) Hoff, and Stan Mazor—considered the request of the Japanese firm and proposed a more versatile design. Hoff had experience with minicomputers, which could do anything the calculator could do and more.
4 days ago · Also in 1971 Intel engineers Ted Hoff, Federico Faggin, and Stan Mazor invented a general-purpose four-bit microprocessor and one of the first single-chip microprocessors, the 4004, under contract to the Japanese calculator manufacturer Nippon Calculating Machine Corporation, which let Intel retain all rights to the technology.
5 days ago · The birth of personal computing in the 1970s and the introduction of the first commercially successful microprocessor, the Intel 4004, revolutionised how individuals interacted with technology (Faggin, 2009).
1 day ago · Penrose’s books are now three decades old and have been argued for and against by many great thinkers. Much more recently, however, the legendary Federico Faggin (the inventor of both silicon-gate technologies and commercial microprocessors) has come out with views quite similar to Penrose. In his 2022 book Irreducible, Faggin writes that:
3 days ago · In fact, doesn't Nagel accept property dualism and Browse Books: Philosophy / Movements / Idealism Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature By Federico Faggin Cover Image · Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide for the Non-Perplexed By Slavoj Zizek Federico Faggin · Irreducible: Consciousness, Life The inventor of the microprocessor ...
2 days ago · Ad aprire la tre giorni Federico Faggin, fisico che ha creato la tecnologia MOS Silicon Gate e progettato i primi microprocessori al mondo. “ Stiamo attraversando un’autentica rivoluzione, una fase che verrà ricordata nella storia economica e industriale. Le aziende italiane non possono farsi trovare impreparate se vogliono rimanere ...
