# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/masatoshi-shima
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:11:55.823Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/masatoshi-shima"
name: "Masatoshi Shima"
slug: "masatoshi-shima"
description: "Masatoshi Shima  is a Japanese electronics engineer. He was one of the architects of the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004. In 1968, Shima worked for Busicom in Japan, and did the logic design for a specialized CPU to be translated into three-chip custom chips. In 1969, he worked with Intel's Ted Hoff and Stanley Mazor to reduce the three-chip Busicom proposal into a one-chip architecture. In 1970, that architecture was transformed into a silicon chip, the Intel 4004, by Federico Faggin, with Shima's assistance in logic design."
tagline: "Japanese computer pioneer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Masatoshi_Shima_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943-08-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.86
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.894464
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Masatoshi Shima"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masatoshi_Shima"
    title: "Masatoshi Shima"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Masatoshi Shima"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masatoshi_Shima"
    title: "Masatoshi Shima"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masatoshi_Shima"
    title: "Masatoshi Shima"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "시마 마사토시"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Masatoshi Shima"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masatoshi_Shima"
    title: "Masatoshi Shima"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Masatoshi Shima"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masatoshi_Shima"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump