Marcian Edward

Hoff
Inventor of the microprocessor

Marcian Edward "Ted" Hoff Jr. is one of the inventors

of the microprocessor. Hoff joined Intel in 1968 as
employee, and is credited with coming up with the idea
of using a "universal processor" rather than a variety of
custom-designed circuits in the architectural idea and an
instruction set formulated with Stanley Mazor in 1969
for the Intel 4004 - the chip that started the
microprocessor revolution in the early 1970s.