Ted Hoff invented the microprocessor and has changed billions of lives for the better.

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Patents issued to Chester Carlson, Ted Hoff, and Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, inventors of the photocopier, microprocessor and personal computer, respectively, are examples.

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The VAX remains the single most influential computer of all time--not just because of its pre-eminence among minis in the 1970s and 1980s, but because Ted Hoff so admired it that he used its architecture as the basis of the Intel 4004, the world's first microprocessor.

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Past inductees present included all three inventors of the microprocessor, Marcian "Ted" Hoff, Federico Faggin and Stanley Mazor.

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