Dr. M.E." Ted " Hoff Engineer and Inventor of Microprocessor

• He designed the computer-on-a-chip microprocessor (1968), which came on the market as the Intel 4004 (1971), starting the microcomputer industry.
• November of 1971 Intel publicly introduced the world's first single chip microprocessor called the Intel 4004.  It was invented by Intel engineers Ted Hoff, Federico Faggin, and Stan Mazor.  The Intel 4004 was smaller than a thumbnail, packed 2,300 transistors, executed 60,000 operations a second, and sold for $200 at the time.