INTEL 4004 Chip
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| "Timely as it was at
that time, "Busicom" company gave an order for
semi-conductors. The time was 1969 and Busicom was
planning to sell high-performance calculators for
scientific calculations, etc and gave orders to the newly
started Intel to produce 13 different types of
semi-conductors. At the time Intel was still
procrastinating whether they should go with this
production or not. The reason for the procrastination was
that Intel had previously only produced three types of
product. Just then, Mr. Ted Hoff, who was an ex
researcher from Stanford University, joined Intel. When
he heard about the orders from Busicom he saw a chance to
realise an idea he had had in his mind for some time.
According to the instructions from Busicom, respective
semi-conductor chips were supposed to be used for each
function, computing, keyboard control, printer control
respectively. Mr. Hoff's thinking was an integrated
circuit (I.C.) which would accommodate multiple
instructions on to a single chip. Mr. Hoff completed his detailed design plan before a revisit by Busicom's executive a couple of months later. Although it was genuinely a first trial for Busicom on hearing Mr. Hoff's news Busicom agreed to his ideas. An agreement was reached to develop the products jointly. At the same time Busicom sent Mr. S Hato ( he is now Vice President of V.M.Technology ) to the Intel Company. This genuinely first agreement was the birth of the world's first CPU (MPU 4004, Micro Processor Unit)." |
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Source: Busicom Corp. - Innovate |
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