
Universitaire
Federico Faggin
Physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur
- Vie
- 1941 – présent
- Né(e) le
- 1 décembre 1941
- Nationalité
- Italie
Federico Faggin is an Italian-American physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. He is best known for designing the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. He led the 4004 (MCS-4) project and the design group during the first five years of Intel's microprocessor effort. Faggin also created, while working at Fairchild Semiconductor in 1968, the self-aligned MOS (metal–oxide–semiconductor) silicon-gate technology (SGT), which made possible MOS semiconductor memor
