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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The fifth in our Friday weekly series on the invention of the microprocessor is an account of how, after getting the world’s first microprocessor, the 4004, into silicon, Dr Federico Faggin set about ...

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 ...

UC Santa Cruz has appointed physics professor Anthony Aguirre to the Faggin Family Presidential Chair for the Physics of Information. The endowed chair was established in 2015 with a $500,000 gift ...