The history of the microcomputer-invention and evolution
Mazor, S.
C-ATS Software, Palo Alto, CA;
This paper appears in: Proceedings of the IEEE
Publication Date: Dec 1995
Volume: 83,
Issue: 12
On page(s): 1601-1608
ISSN: 0018-9219
References Cited: 55
CODEN: IEEPAD
INSPEC Accession Number: 5167959
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/5.476077
Current Version Published: 2002-08-06
Abstract
Intel's founder, Robert Noyce, chartered Ted Hoff's Applications
Research Department in 1969 to find new applications for silicon
technology-the microcomputer was the result. Hoff thought it would be
neat to use MOS LSI technology to produce a computer. Because of the
ever growing density of large scale integrated (LSI) circuits a
“computer on a chip” was inevitable. But in 1970 we could
only get about 2000 transistors on a chip, and a conventional CPU would
need about 10 times that number. We developed two
“microcomputers” 10 years ahead of “schedule,”
by scaling down the requirements and using a few other
“tricks” described in this paper
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