In 1997 Mead spun the retina off into a company called Foveon, which Faggin runs today.

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The price war burned out Faggin, so he looked for a successor and found chip veteran Francis Lee.

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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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To limit the damage, Faggin lowered costs by replacing two chips with one.

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It would be a lesser place if you erased names such as Jean Hoerni, Federico Faggin and Andy Grove.

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Synaptics keeps in a drawer a stack of autographed Faggin photos that it sends out to engineering fans who write in.

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Mead and Faggin realized that the rat model was neat but useless.

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In 1987 two of the most eminent electrical engineers in Silicon Valley, Federico Faggin (pronounced, fa-ZHEEN) and Carver Mead, were recruited to create Synaptics.

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Faggin is credited by some for having designed the first microprocessor at Intel in 1971, even though Intel officially gives that honor to Faggin's colleague.

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