The man who invented the first microprocessor
40 years after Intel patented the first microprocessor , we talk to one of the key employees who made that world converting innovation happen. Ted Hoff stored his own life, sort of. Deep interior this 73-year- vintage lies a microprocessor - a tiny pc that controls his pacemaker and, in turn, his heart. Microprocessors had been invented by - Ted Hoff, at the side of a handful of visionary colleagues working at a young Silicon Valley start-up known as Intel. This curious quirk of fate isn't misplaced on Ted. "It's a nice feeling," he says. Memory I n 1967 Marcian Edward Hoff decided to walk far from academia, having won his PhD in electrical engineering. Then he got here a cellphone ...