Marcian Hoff
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Dr. Marcian Edward "Ted" Hoff Jr. (born October 28, 1937 in Rochester, New York), is one of the inventors of the microprocessor. He joined Intel in 1968 as employee number 12, and is credited with coming up with the idea of a universal processor instead of custom-designed circuits. His insight started the microprocessor revolution in the early 1970s. In 1980, he was named the first Intel Fellow, the highest technical position in the company. He stayed in that position until 1983.
External links
- MIT, Inventor of the Week Archive -- [Marcian Hoff]
- [Pictures of Ted Hoff] from the Intel Museum
- [U.S. Patent 3,821,715] -- Memory System for a Multi-Chip Digital Computer (CPU), issued June 28, 1974.
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