1969年,英特尔(Intel)公司一个名叫特德·霍夫的年轻工程师接手了一个项目——为日本商业通讯公司(Busicom)的新型计算机设计12条集成电路,由于每个集成电路上都要放置多达5000个的晶体管,这无论是从技术上还是预算上,都成为了一项极为艰巨的任务。特德采取了以前从未有人采用过的方法,他想把不同功能的电路集中在一起,从而把多条电路变成一种单个的、多功能集成电路。两年后,世界上第一个微处理器——4004半导体诞生了。霍夫的发明引起了一场商用计算机的革命,今 In 1969, a young Intel engineer named Ted Huff took over a project - designing 12 integrated circuits for a new type of computer at Bocomom, as each integrated circuit had to Placing up to 5,000 transistors, both technically and on budget, has become a daunting task. Ted took a hitherto unknown approach and he wanted to bring together circuits of different functions to turn multiple circuits into a single, multi-functional integrated circuit. Two years later, the world’s first microprocessor, the 4004, was born. Huff’s invention caused a revolution in commercial computers, today