If not for Ted Hoff's curiosity, we'd all be using typewriters to text our BFFs. OK, not quite. But it's hard to overstate how much Hoff's invention changed the world, even if he downplays the impulse ...

A recent correspondent objected to my assertion that all NASA has ever given us -- other than some bodies and scrap metal strewn over the landscape -- is “Tang!” and a toilet plunger. The writer ...

NPR turned 50 this year. And to celebrate, we're marking some of the big events of 1971. If you're listening to this on a smartphone or on the internet or in a car full of computer chips, that is only ...

When Busicom contracted with Intel in April 1969 to create a series of custom chips for five upcoming calculators, neither company realized it was creating the template for what ultimately came to be ...

From the introduction of Intel's 4004 chip in 1971 to today's quad-core desktop chips with four processing engines, the evolution of the commercial microprocessor has come a long way in just 35 years.

"Ted" Hoff's career as an engineer began long before he invented the microprocessor at Intel. At age 15, he won a trip to Washington, D.C., and a $400 scholarship from the Westinghouse Science Talent ...

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