Intel 8080 microprocessor oral history panel
Members of the design, engineering, and marketing teams associated with the Intel 8080 microprocessor, its peripheral chips, board products, development systems, applications development and customer support discuss the development of this breakthrough product, hailed as the first microprocessor sellable as a "computer on a chip." Faggin, Hoff, Mazor and Shima cover the motivation and design of the 8080. Shima recounts in detail his efforts to realize the 8080 in silicon, and Bisset describes his finding the first working 8080 and subsequent work with Shima designing the peripheral circuits for the 8080. A wide-ranging discussion follows, involving all of the participants, but Feeney and Gelbach especially, of the importance of development systems, applications development, and customer training to the success of the 8080, Intel, and the rise of microprocessors generally.
Item Details
- Date
- 2007-04-26 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102658123
- Organization
- Computer History Museum
- People
- David C. Brock (Editor)
Stanley Mazor (Interviewee)
Steve Bisset (Interviewee)
Masatoshi Shima (Interviewee)
M. (Ted) Hoff (Interviewee)
Yan Rosenshteyn (Videographer)
David House (Moderator)
Edward Gelbach (Interviewee)
Harold V. Feeney (Interviewee)
Federico Faggin (Interviewee) - Category
- Transcript
- Extent
- 37 p.
- Place of publication
- North America/USA/CA/Mountain View
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X4021.2007
- Subject
- MOS, Design Practices, Logic Design, Semiconductor Manufacturing Processes, Semiconductor History, Marketing, Intel 8080 (Microprocessor), Silicon Gate, Intel 4004 (Microprocessor), Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI), Microprocessors, Intel Corporation, Intel 8008 (Microprocessor)
- Archive collection
- Oral history collection
- Archive hierarchy
- CHM Oral History Collection