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Federico Faggin | |
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.jpg) Faggin in September 2011 | |
| Born | 1 December 1941 |
| Citizenship | Italian, American |
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| Children | one daughter (b. 1970) and two sons (b. 1979 and 1980)[1] |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | physics, electrical engineering |
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| Thesis | flying-spot scanners |
Federico Faggin (Italian pronunciation: [fedeˈriːko fadˈdʒin], Venetian: [faˈdʒiŋ]; born 1 December 1941) 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–semiconductor) silicon-gate technology (SGT), which made possible MOS semiconductor memory chips, CCD image sensors, and the microprocessor. After the 4004, he led development of the Intel 8008 and 8080, using his SGT methodology for random logic chip design, which was essential to the creation of early Intel microprocessors. He was co-founder (with Ralph Ungermann) and CEO of Zilog, the first company solely dedicated to microprocessors, and led the development of the Zilog Z80 and Z8 processors.[2] He was later the co-founder and CEO of Cygnet Technologies, and then Synaptics.
In 2010, he received the 2009 National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honor the United States confers for achievements related to technological progress.[3] In 2011, Faggin founded the Federico and Elvia Faggin Foundation to support the scientific study of consciousness at US universities and research institutes. In 2015, 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 physics and related fields including mathematics, complex systems, biophysics, and cognitive science, with the unifying theme of information in physics."[4]
- ^ Hendrie, Gardner (2006). "Oral History of Federico Faggin" (PDF). Computer History Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 January 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
- ^ ""Inductee Detail"". National Inventors Hall of Fame. 25 July 2016. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
- ^ ""The 2009 National Medal of Technology and Innovation"". Retrieved 11 February 2017.
- ^ Stephens, Tim (8 September 2015). ""Gift to UC Santa Cruz funds new presidential chair for physics of information"". UC Santa Cruz Newscenter.