"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...