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microprocessor

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• Widrow's PhD student built the Intel 4004; the 4004's circuit designer later said silicon can never be conscious
  capture promoted Tier mixed, see per-claim tiers below 2026-07-09 · hop, oral-history, neural-networks, backpropagation-history, microprocessor
• Federico Faggin, who did the transistor-level circuit design of the Intel 4004, later argued that classical silicon computation can never produce consciousness
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-09 · faggin, intel-4004, microprocessor, consciousness, panpsychism
• Ted Hoff — Bernard Widrow's Stanford PhD student and co-inventor of the LMS/ADALINE — went on to architect the Intel 4004, the first commercial microprocessor
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-09 · hoff, widrow, adaline, lms, intel-4004