While doing research for our articles about inventing the integrated circuit, the calculator, and the microprocessor, one name kept popping which was new to me, Federico Faggin. Yet this was a name I ...

“When I joined Intel it only had a hundred people”, recalls Federico Faggin, who designed the 4004, 8008 and 8080 and, after founding Zilog, the Z80, “Intel wasn’t making any money. It was struggling ...

UC Santa Cruz has received a $500,000 gift from physicist and technology innovator Federico Faggin, plus matching funds from the UC Regents, to establish a $1 million endowment for the Faggin Family ...

The eighth, and last, in our Friday series on the early microprocessors is the story of Dr Federico Faggin, who, after getting the 4004, 8008 and 8080 to market at Intel, decides to strike out on his ...

NPR turned 50 this year. And to celebrate, we're marking some of the big events of 1971. If you're listening to this on a smartphone or on the internet or in a car full of computer chips, that is only ...

Former Intel engineer Federico Faggin has received an award from the European Commission (EC) and the European Patent Office (EPO) to honour his role in the development of the microprocessor. Faggin ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gil Press writes about technology, entrepreneurs and innovation. This week’s milestone in the history of technology is the birth ...

Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil have postulated that one day, humans will be able to download their consciousness to a computer. Nonsense, replied Federico Faggin, the architect of the first ...

Aug. 26, 2004 -- What will the technological future look like? Thinking machines? Biological chips? Nanomachines? Probably. But I think it's going to be even more interesting than that: It's going to ...