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Washington, D.C. – Italian Federico Faggin, along with Americans Marcian E. Hoff Jr. and Stanley Mazor, received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation directly from the hands of US President Barack Obama for the invention of the microprocessor. Federico Faggin moved from Italy to Silicon Valley in 1968 to work at Fairchild Semiconductors, where he developed the MOS technology that made microprocessors, dynamic memory (RAM), non-volatile memory (ROM), and CCDs for digital cameras possible. In 1970, he moved to Intel, where, with Hoff and Mazor, he designed the Intel 4004, the first microprocessor. In 1975, Faggin founded Zilog, the first company dedicated entirely to microprocessors. Zilog’s first microprocessor, the Z80, quickly became widely used throughout the world (I used it extensively in the distant 1980s, at the Enrico Fermi Industrial Technical Institute in Modena).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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