"Ted" Hoff's career as an engineer began long before he invented the microprocessor at Intel. At age 15, he won a trip to Washington, D.C., and a $400 scholarship from the Westinghouse Science Talent ...
The integrated chip greatly improved the use for transistors, but it could only do what it was originally programmed to do. It couldn't change programs, and it certainly couldn't remember anything.
Here is the continuation of the panel discussion among Barrie Gilbert, Ted Hoff, and Bob Pease. The first part of this conversation appears in the Engineering Hall Of Fame section of our September 13, ...