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beam with the xerography process to create a laser printer.
Digital Equipment hires David Ahl as a marketing consultant.
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1970
Xerox opens the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Intel creates the 1103 chip, the first
generally available DRAM memory chip. Wayne Pickette takes his computer-on-a-chip
design to Intel, and is hired, began working for Dr. Ted Hoff. At Intel, Wayne Pickette proposes
to Ted Hoff the idea of building a computer-on-a-chip for the Busicom project.
Gilbert Hyatt files a patent application entitled "Single Chip Integrated Circuit Computer
Architecture", the first basic patent on the microprocessor.
Work begins at Intel on the layout of the circuit for what would be the 4004 microprocessor.
Federico Faggin directs the work. Intel creates the first 4004 microprocessor. (1971 The first
commercial 4- bit microprocessor 4004 (2,300 transistors; 10 µm features; 10 mm2 die; 108 kHz
kHz))