"Ted" Hoff at Intel in 1971, the 4004 was a 4-bit ... purpose processor that executed a calculator program, but like a computer, could be used for anything else. In the early 1970s, computer ...

But who invented ... Edward Hoff Jr — known as “Ted”, head of the Intel’s Application Research Department, felt that the design was even more complicated than a general purpose computer ...

One young scientist at Intel, Ted Hoff, thought he could make ... this chip was to be an entire mini-computer unto itself. Hoff designed the chip, and engineer Frederico Faggin set about building ...