Quote from Trader666:
To the jaded, jealous, ignorant loser:
You're clueless. Don's article is also consistent with what I've said and NOT consistent with what you've said... take this excerpt for example:
The 4004 was essentially the brainchild of three engineers: Ted Hoff, Stan Mazor and Federico Faggin. In April 1969, Busicom, a Japanese calculator manufacturer, contracted with Intel, then specializing in memory, to develop a series of custom chips for five upcoming machines.
http://www.xnumber.com/xnumber/accidental_revolution.htm
All 3 worked for Intel. Intel invented the microprocessor, Busicom was the customer. Shima (a Busicom engineer) did play a minor role but as I said, Hoff's thinking was the key:
Busicom's original design called for a dozen different logic and memory chips. Ted Hoff, the Intel engineer assigned to the project, believed the design was not cost effective. His solution was to simplify the design and produce a programmable processor capable of creating a set of complex special-purpose calculator chips.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprocessor
[Ted Hoff] is credited with coming up with the idea of a universal processor instead of custom-designed circuits. His insight started the microprocessor revolution in the early 1970s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Hoff
Notice how I quote references but you simply spew venom?
Bottom line: Intel invented the microprocessor, Busicom was the customer, Texas Instruments came up with the microprocessor at the same time anyway, and you're a jaded, jealous, ignorant loser who desperately posts revisionist history on ET. Get a life loser 
P.S. I see you're even stealing my insults. Have you ever had an original thought?
To the pompous BS artist:
The article leaves out Shima's contribution to the project, yet it did have an impact.
Here is an industry-respected source:
http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/oral_history/abstracts/shimaab.html
"Masatoshi Shima is an electronics engineer whose work on the 4004 at Busicom and on the 8000 and 8008 at Intel and Zilog made important contributions to the development of the microprocessor."
You are the one who has last your mind, all you are doing is taking excerpts out of context, how original. That is expelling disinformation.
Facts: Intel did not even make microprocessors UNTIL... it was CONTRACTED by BUSICOM to produce a chip
..which was DESIGNED by Shima of Busicom, the italian Faggin and Ted Hoff.
Intel contracts other semiconducter producers to this day.
If Intel was never contracted, the chip WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN MADE as it was CO-DESIGNED by Shima of BUSICOM.
Here is another story from the same website:
http://www.xnumber.com/xnumber/tedhoff.htm
"Dr. Hoff's solution was just brilliant. INTEL and Busicom agreed to go ahead with the project but Busicom would retain the exclusive rights on the set of chips. After one year of development by Ted Hoff, Stanley Mazor and Federico Faggin of INTEL, and with the cooperation of Masatoshi Shima, the author of Busicom specifications, the INTEL 4004 4-bit microprocessor was born in 1970."
There have been many times in history where people have been close to a major discovery, yet they overlook one (major or slight) factor which causes that potential discovery to not be made.
You may claim that the developments were minor, yet let's put this into a mathematical expression
If you remove one variable you change the entire equation, life is not about "What ifs".
What if Busicom had never contracted Intel, and Intel never created processors (all it takes is one overlooked variable)? Too bad busicom did contract intel
What if one the creators of the chip had been aborted?
Too bad, they weren't
What if one of the creators had been hit by a car before creating the chip?
Too bad. That didn't happen.
What if What if....
A (Hoff and Faggin) *B (shima)=AB(TOGETHER created the microprocessor)
and AB=x(TOGETHER created the microprocessor)
What has happened in the past is done finished, you cannot create a time machine and fix history to fit your fantasy world. You are just a washout on ET.
The chip made by Intel was not a PURELY AMERICAN "INNOVATION". Deny that Statement.
Your ignorance and your predispositions however prevent you from seeing reality as it as.
