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For for his work as part of the team that developed the Intel 4004, the World's first commercial microprocessor. |
Stan Mazor
Raised in Oakland, California, Stanley Mazor (b. 1941), enrolled in San Francisco State University (SFSU), majoring in math in 1960 (the college's metal shop allowed him to work on his home-built helicopter project). He became interested in computers and learned to program the IBM 1620. He also became a lab-assistant helping other students to use this computer.
In 1964, he joined Fairchild Semiconductor in Mountain View as a programmer, followed by a position as computer designer in the digital research department (1966). He shares patents on “Symbol,” an experimental high-level language computer.
In 1969, he joined the year-old Intel Corporation working under Hoff on the Busicom calculator project, designing the first microprocessor—often dubbed a “computer-on-a-chip". Mazor assisted in its architecture and wrote software for the revolutionary new chip, dubbed the Intel 4004. He also proposed the first 8-bit CPU the 8008,
and was also a co-developer of Intel's popular 8080 CPU chip.
After six years, in 1974 Mazor moved to Intel's Brussels office as a field applications engineer helping customers to use Intel products. He returned to California (1976), and began teaching in Intel’s Technical Training group. (Later he taught microcomputer courses at Stanford University and the University of Santa Clara, and several other universities.)
Mazor worked on circuit analysis programs and logic simulation at both Fairchild and Intel and that interest and experience led him to join a Computer Aided Design (CAD) start-up company, Silicon Compilers in 1983. Following the CAD route, he joined start-up Synopsys as manager of customer support and training in 1988 where he published a book about VHDL and logic synthesis; later he worked in two other CAD start-ups, Cadabra, and Numerical Technologies.