At Fairchild in 1968, Faggin also designed and manufactured the world's first commercial IC using SGT, the Fairchild 3708.

When Federico Faggin designed the MCS-4 family, he also christened the chips with distinct names: 4001, 4002, 4003, and 4004, breaking away from the numbering scheme used by Intel at that time which would have required the names 1302, 1105, 1507, and 1202 respectively.

Federico Faggin developed the first micro-chip and micro-processor ; Robert Gallo led research that identified a cancer-causing virus, and also the AIDS virus ; Anthony Fauci conducted significant research that led to the discovery of the AIDS virus ; Riccardo Giacconi developed the X-ray telecope ; and Enrico Fermi ushered in the nuclear age.

They left Fairchild to found Intel in 1968 and were soon joined by Andrew Grove and Les Vadasz, who took with them the revolutionary MOS Silicon Gate Technology ( SGT ), recently created in the Fairchild R & D Laboratory by Federico Faggin who also designed the Fairchild 3708, the world ’ s first commercial MOS integrated circuit using SGT.

The design methodology created by Faggin was utilized for the implementation of all Intel ’ s early microprocessors and later also for Zilog's Z80.

See also: Faggin, F., Klein T. ( 1969 ).

As cofounder, president and CEO of Synaptics, F. Faggin contributed also to the creation of the Synaptics I1000, the world ’ s first single-chip optical character recognizer ( 1991 ), and the Synaptics Touchpad ( 1994 ).

Faggin also oversaw the successful acquisition of Foveon by the Japanese Sigma Corporation in November 2008.

Editor Tecniche nuove, Milan, covers also the topic of Faggin ’ s interest in consciousness and his “ Federico and Elvia Faggin Foundation ” ( pages: 182-84 ; 184-186 ; 186-187 ).

The technology was developed by Italian physicist Federico Faggin in 1968, who later joined Intel in order to develop the very first Central Processing Unit ( CPU ) on one chip ( Intel 4004 ), for which he received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2010.

Zilog was incorporated in California in 1974 by Federico Faggin, who left Intel after working on the 4004 and then the 8080 microprocessors.

A small re-design followed, under the leadership of Federico Faggin, the designer of the 4004, now project leader of the 1201, expanding from a 16-pin to 18-pin design, and the new 1201 was delivered to CTC in late 1971.

** Federico Faggin, having finished the design of the 4004, became leader of the project from January 1971 until its successful completion in April 1972, after it had been suspended – for lack of progress – for about seven months.

** Hal Feeney project engineer did the detailed logic design, circuit design, and physical layout under Faggin's supervision, employing the same design methodology that Faggin had originally developed for the Intel 4004 microprocessor, and utilizing the basic circuits he had developed for the 4004.

On October 15, 2010, Faggin, Hoff, and Mazor were awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation by President Barack Obama for their pioneering work on the 4004.

Faggin later used this new shift register in the MCS-4 chips, including the 4004.

( Federico Faggin ) on the 4004 design ( 1971 ).

This one-of-a-kind prototype was a personal present by Busicom ’ s president Mr. Yoshio Kojima to Federico Faggin for his successful leadership of the design and development of the 4004 and three other memory and I / O chips ( the MCS-4 chipset ).

* Intel 4004 Microprocessor 35th Anniversary-Live recording of presentations by Ted Hoff and Federico Faggin at the Computer History Museum for the 35th anniversary of the first microprocessor.

" The 4004 microprocessor of Faggin, Hoff, Mazor, and Shima ".

* The Intel 4004: A testimonial from Federico Faggin, its designer, on Intel's first microprocessor's thirtieth birthday

* " Computers Still No Match for Human Intelligence " Video and article interview with Federico Faggin 40 years after the release of the Intel 4004 microprocessor

is a Japanese electronics engineer, who was one of the designers of the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004, along with Federico Faggin, Ted Hoff, and Stanley Mazor.

Following Marcian " Ted " Hoff's initial conception, formulated in 1969, Shima later helped design the 4004 processor, working at the Intel offices for six months-from April until October 1970-with Federico Faggin, the project leader.

It was Federico Faggin who, in 1970-1971, independently from Hoff, developed the silicon-gate design methodology and did the actual chip design that was essential to the realization of the first microprocessor In 1985, Hoff was named the first Intel Fellow, which is the highest technical position in the company.

Among the technological innovations on which today's information and communication technologies are grounded, we can mention the following: electric batteries ( Alessandro Volta ), radio ( Guglielmo Marconi ), telephone ( Antonio Meucci ), nuclear reactor ( Enrico Fermi ), the microprocessor ( Federico Faggin ), compressed audio ( MP3 ) and video ( MPEG ) ( Leonardo Chiariglione ).

Shima was then employed to implement the transistor-level logic of Intel's next microprocessor, which became the Intel 8080 ( conception and architecture by Federico Faggin ), he was not involved in creation of 8088 and 8086.

Synaptics was originally founded as a neural network research company in 1986 by Federico Faggin ( co-inventor of the microprocessor ) and Carver Mead ( VLSI pioneer ).

Another important branch is the engineering / computer components industry ( Federico Faggin, the microprocessor's co-inventor was born in Vicenza ).

Federico Faggin, the sole chip designer among the engineers on the MCS-4 project, was the only one with experience in MOS random logic and circuit design.

At the time of the MCS-4 development, Vadasz's attention was completely focused on the mainstream business of semiconductor memories and he left the leadership and the management of the MCS-4 project to Faggin.

The myth was repeated by Federico Faggin himself in a lecture for the Computer History Museum in 2006.

The Silicon Gate Technology ( SGT ) was first presented by its developer, Federico Faggin, at the IEDM on October 23, 1968 in Washington, D. C.

* The Silicon Gate Technology, developed at Fairchild in 1968 by F. Faggin et al., was presented at the IDEM in Washington DC, in Oct. 1968.

Faggin was hired as project leader to implement such architecture.

It was resumed in January 1971 and Hal Feeney did the detailed design under Faggin ’ s direction and following his new methodology.

When Faggin left Intel at the end of 1974 to found Zilog with Ralph Ungermann, he was department manager for MOS Research and Development with almost 80 engineers reporting to him and more than a dozen products under development.

Federico Faggin was the project leader of the silicon gate technology and invented its unique process architecture.

F. Faggin was the designer of the 3708.

F. Faggin was the project leader, the creator of the design methodology and the principal designer of the four chips.

The new random logic design methodology with silicon gate technology devised by Faggin was used for all the early generations of microprocessors at Intel and Zilog.

F. Faggin was the project leader, H. Feeney did the detailed chip design.

The 8080 was conceived by F. Faggin and designed by M. Shima under Faggin ’ s supervision.