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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An article incorrectly said that Federico Faggin retired from the board of Synaptics. Faggin intends to resign no later than the company’s next shareholder meeting in 2008. In a week that saw Facebook ...

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 ...

This week’s milestone in the history of technology is the birth of the microprocessor, allowing software—or "artificial intelligence"—to run everywhere. ‘General-purpose,’ [Intel’s marketing director ...

The 4004 microprocessor. [Photo: Intel] On Tuesday November 15, Intel held an event in San Francisco to celebrate the fortieth birthday of its 4004 microprocessor–the first complete single-chip ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Crafting the first finger-nail-size "brain" of the computer world, Ted Hoff, Federico Faggin and ...

Forty years ago today, electronics and semiconductor trade newspaper Electronic News ran an advertisement for a new kind of chip. The Intel 4004, a $60 chip in a 16-pin dual in-line package, was an ...

The foundation of modern computing was something of an accident. The Intel 4004 Microprocessor, which debuted thirty years ago Thursday, sparked a technological revolution because it was the first ...