who are the personalities behind the invention of the microprocessor?....?

Question

better if you can give their bibliographys and their other personal infos...it'll hep alot...thanks...

Answer 1

Federico Faggin was working for the new company Intel. Intel had a contract with a Japanese company called Busicom to build some IC’s for a new desktop calculator. Faggin was concerned that the chips Busicom asked for contained too many transistors and that Intel would not be able to produce the IC on budget or at all. Inspired by the PDP-8 minicomputer architecture Faggin suggested an alternate simpler programmable design. Faggin’s design was the 4004. Faggin convinced Intel to buy the IC design back from Busicom (the Japanese company did not last long enough to market the calculator). Intel went on to market bigger and better microprocessors. Initially they were used in control applications which is what Intel had in mind. Bill Gates and Paul Allen on the other hand had other idea’s. They were teens who purchased time to play around with time shared computers and dreamed of personal computers at a time when most people scoffed at the idea.

http://www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/MicroprocessorHistory.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprocessor#History
http://www.intel4004.com/
http://www.intel.com/museum/archives/4004.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_4004#History_and_description
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busicom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Faggin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masatoshi_Shima
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Noyce

http://www3.telus.net/danpeirce/robot/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#Early_life

Answer 2

Invention Of The Microprocessor

Answer 3

Once the integrated circuit was developed and expanded, mostly by Texas Instruments, the competition to put more and more circuits on a chip and eventually to make them programmable drove several companies along varying paths to make microprocessors. About a dozen came on the market in a short period of time. The 8080 came out of a calculator/controller environment, the 6800 from Motorola was to be a general purpose device while the 6502 was to be pin for pin compatible but with much simpler programming modes and much cheaper. Having lived through the era, the personalities of making of these were pretty well buried. The people who got talked about were those who took the microprocessors and made microcomputers and tried to get them to market - the Altair and SW Tech looking like science projects, the KIM-1 and SYM looking like handy prototypes and the TRS-80, Apple, and Commodore looking like terminals.

Answer 4

I only know one of the "well buried personalities" Mike is mentioning above, because I know him personally: Prof. James Urquhart. But he (participated) in the concept of the ARM processor which came later (early 80's) than the 8xxx and 6xxx series.
Short Bio here http://www.picochip.com/press/press_releases/press001