Posted By
SVS
on 2011-10-16
16:18:17
 |  Re: Eng. Faggin (inventor of uP) conference
Hello Bionic,
the sensation I felt was the opposite of your opinion. Really mr. Faggin explained correctly and with humbleness the history. He many times pointed up the fact that he only found the solutions to integrate logic blocks having not invented them. At a specific question of one of my friend, he replied that yes Stack-system and IRQ were fantastic intuitions, but not its.
About the 4004, Intel had some failed attempts when gave him the project. He and his staff realized it in about 9 months. A significant reason of success was his knowledge of Silicon Gate technology that himself did develop a few years before for Fairchild semiconductors. The 4004 circuit has a visible sign on its circuitry: F.F.
Apart the 4004, he was the father of 8080, Z80, the Z8 and more recently of Touch-pad.
Now he sold all its companies and just created a no-profit foundation with the target to scientifically study and understand the human brain capacity of self-awareness.
A great man.
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