Federico Faggin - Man Behind the Invention of first 'Microchip'
                     FEDERICO FAGGIN - MAN BEHIND THE INVENTION OF FIRST 
'MICROCHIP'
INTRODUCTION
 Federico Faggin was born in Vicenza, Italy, in 1941. He received his 
doctorate (Laurea) in physics from the University of Padua (1965). 
He began working at SGS Fairchild in Italy, where he developed their 
first MOS process technology and their first integrated circuits (ICS).
Source: computerhistory.org
EDUCATION AND EARLY CAREER
 Born in Vicenza, Italy, Federico grew up in an intellectual 
environment. 
 His father, Giuseppe Faggin, was a scholar who wrote many 
academic books and translated, with commentaries, the Enneads of 
Plotinus from the original Greek into modern Italian. Federico had a 
strong interest in technology from an early age. 
 He attended a technical high school in Vicenza, I.T.I.S. Alessandro 
Rossi, and later earned a laurea degree in physics, summa cum 
laude, from the University of Padua.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
SILICON VALLEY CAREER
 The silicon-gate technology (SGT) is one of the most influential 
technologies to have fueled the progress of microelectronics since 
the MOSFET. Without the SGT, the first microprocessor could not 
have been made during 1970–1971.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
FAIRCHILD 3708
 At Fairchild, Faggin designed the first commercial integrated circuit 
using Silicon Gate Technology with self-aligned MOSFET transistors: 
the Fairchild 3708.
 The 3708 was an 8-bit analog multiplexer with decoding logic, 
replacing the equivalent Fairchild 3705 that used metal-gate 
technology. 
 The 3708 was 5 times faster, had 100 times less junction leakage 
and was much more reliable than the 3705, demonstrating the 
superiority of SGT over metal-gate MOS.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
INTEL
 Federico Faggin joined Intel from Fairchild in 1970 as the project 
leader and designer of the MCS-4 family, which included the 4004, 
the world's first single-chip microprocessor. 
 Fairchild was not taking advantage of the SGT and Faggin was 
burning with the desire of using his new technology to design 
advanced chips.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
EARLY INTEL MICROPROCESSORS
 The Intel 8008 was the world's first single-chip 8-bit CPU and, like 
the 4004, was built with p-channel SGT. 
 The 8008 development was originally assigned to Hal Feeney in 
March 1970 but was suspended until the 4004 was completed. 
 It was resumed in January 1971 under Faggin's direction utilizing the 
basic circuits and methodology he had developed for the 4004, with 
Hal Feeney doing the chip design.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
ZILOG
 Zilog was the first company entirely dedicated to microprocessors 
started by Federico Faggin and Ralph Ungermann in November 
1974. 
 Faggin was Zilog's president and CEO until the end of 1980 and he 
conceived and designed the Z80 CPU and its family of 
programmable peripheral components. 
Source: en.wikipedia.org
THE COMMUNICATION COSYSTEM
 The Communication CoSystem (1984). The Cosystem was conceived 
by Faggin and designed and produced by Cygnet Technologies, Inc., 
the second startup company of Faggin. 
 Attached to a personal computer and to a standard phone line, the 
CoSystem could automatically handle all the personal voice and 
data communications of the user, including electronic mail, 
database access, computer screen transfers during a voice 
communication, call record keeping, etc. 
Source: en.wikipedia.org
FEDERICO AND ELVIA FAGGIN 
FOUNDATION
 Founded in 2011 the "Federico and Elvia Faggin Foundation" 
supports the scientific study of consciousness at US universities and 
research institutes. 
 The purpose of the Foundation is to advance the understanding of 
consciousness through theoretical and experimental research. 
 Faggin's interest in consciousness has his roots in the study of 
artificial neural networks at Synaptics, a company he started in 
1986, that prompted his inquiry into whether or not it is possible to 
build a conscious computer.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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