Hyatt asserted that he put together the requisite technology a year earlier at his short-lived company, Micro Computer Inc., whose major investors included Intel’s founders, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore.

engineer and inventor-Gilbert Hyatt from Los Angeles, after a 20-year battle with the patent office, announced that he had finally received a certificate of intellectual ownership for a single-chip microprocessor, that he says he invented in 1968, at least a year before Intel started (see the U.S. Ted Hoff was probably the first to recognize that Intel’s new silicon-gated MOS technology might make a single-chip CPU possible if a sufficiently simple architecture could be developed. However, all concluded that the integrated circuit technology was not yet ready. In the late 1960s, many articles had discussed the possibility of a computer on a chip. In 1950s and 1960s the microprocessor CPUs (Central Processing Units) were built with many chips or with a few LSI (large scale integration) chips. Several people got the idea almost at the same time, but only one got the all glory, and he was the engineer Ted Hoff (together with the co-inventors Mazor and Faggin) at Intel Corp., based in Santa Clara, California. Trying to answer to this question, we will stumble upon again into the same story as with the inventions of the integrated circuit, the transistor, and many others gadgets, reviewed in this site. Who actually invented the single-chip microprocessor?

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