Ted Hoff

IRL Name: 
Marcian E. "Ted" Hoff, Jr.
Biography: 

In the late 1960s, many articles had discussed the possibility of a computer on a chip. However, all concluded that the integrated circuit technology was not yet ready. Ted Hoff was the first to recognize that Intel's new silicon-gated MOS technology might make a single-chip CPU possible if a sufficiently simple architecture could be developed. Hoff developed such an architecture with just over 2000 transistors.

He is known as one of the primary inventors of the microprocessor.

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Hoff earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1958.

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