Indiatimes: In 1971, Federico Faggin and Ted Hoff fitted a calculator brain onto one chip, invented the microprocessor that led to the personal computers we still use today
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Federico Faggin
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–semicondu…
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Born 1 December 1941 · Q667095
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2026· 1 entry
2020· 1 entry
New Scientist: Federico Faggin
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2019· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2019).
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2018· 2 entries
Hackaday: Federico Faggin: The Real Silicon Man
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Awarded Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2018).
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2015· 1 entry
The Faggin Foundation helped to establish a $1 million endowment for the Faggin Family Presidential Chair in the Physics of Information at UC Santa Cruz to promote the study of "fundamental questions at the interface of
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded Enrico Fermi Prize (2014).
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2012· 1 entry
Armenpress: President Serzh Sargsyan received Federico Faggin
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2011· 2 entries
Faggin founded the Federico and Elvia Faggin Foundation to support the scientific study of consciousness at US universities and research institutes
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The "Federico and Elvia Faggin Foundation" supports the scientific study of consciousness at US universities and research institutes
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2010· 1 entry
Received the 2009 National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honor the United States confers for achievements related to technological progress
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2009· 4 entries
Electronics Weekly: Fabbing The 4004, By Federico Faggin
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Awarded Computer History Museum Fellow (2009).
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Won National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2009).
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The four contributors to the 4004 were inducted as Fellows of the Computer History Museum
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology (1997).
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1996).
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1994· 2 entries
Awarded W. Wallace McDowell Award (1994).
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Synaptics introduced the touchpad to replace the cumbersome trackball then in use in laptop computers
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1988· 2 entries
Awarded Marconi Prize (1988).
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Awarded Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1988).
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1986· 2 entries
That prompted his inquiry into whether or not it is possible to build a conscious computer
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Faggin co-founded and was CEO of Synaptics until 1999, becoming chairman from 1999 to 2009
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1981· 6 entries
“La realtà vera è quella interiore, quantistica, privata. Noi come entità coscienti siamo una parte-intero di Uno, Uno è tutto ciò che esiste, è Dio, diciamo.”
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“La materia è l'inchiostro con cui la coscienza scrive l'esperienza di sé.”
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“Un robot non potrà mai essere come noi, è solo una rappresentazione simbolica, fa quello che gli diciamo di fare. Con il professore Giacomo D'Ariano, che è un'autorità della fisica quantistica, ho elaborato la prima teoria della coscienza. C'è un legame tra l'informazione quantistica e la coscienza, e attraverso questo legame si spiegano fenomeni che prima non si riuscivano a capire.”
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“L'umanità è a un bivio. O torna a credere di avere una natura diversa rispetto alle macchine o sarà ridotta a macchina tra le macchine. Il rischio non è che l'intelligenza artificiale diventi meglio di noi, ma che noi decidiamo liberamente di sottometterci a lei e ai suoi padroni.”
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“Nemmeno la forma più evoluta di intelligenza artificiale potrà mai sostituire l'uomo. Perché nell'essere umano esiste qualcosa di irriducibile al sapere delle macchine: la coscienza di sé, il libero arbitrio, il dubbio, i sentimenti.”
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“Siamo esseri spirituali, temporaneamente imprigionati in un corpo fisico simile a una macchina. Ma siamo molto più di una macchina. Siamo coscienza, entità infinite. Irriducibili.”
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1974· 1 entry
Soon after he founded Zilog, but then decided to give priority to the Z80
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1971· 1 entry
By using SGT with two additional innovations: (1) "buried contacts" that doubled the circuit density, and (2) the use of bootstrap loads with 2-phase clocks—previously considered impossible with SGT— that improved the sp
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1970· 1 entry
As the project leader and designer of the MCS-4 family of microprocessors, which included the 4004, the world's first single-chip microprocessor
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1968· 2 entries
And provided additional refinements and inventions to make possible the implementation of the 4004 in a single chip
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The self-aligned MOS (metal–oxide–semiconductor) silicon-gate technology (SGT), which made possible MOS semiconductor memory chips, CCD image sensors, and the microprocessor
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1967· 1 entry
Faggin joined SGS-Fairchild, an Italy-based joint venture between the Italian company Società Generale Semiconduttori and the American firm Fairchild Semiconductor
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1941· 1 entry
Born 1941-12-01.
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