Federico Faggin

Italian-American physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur (born 1941) · Italy · Scientists

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2024“Wired Next Festa Trentino (September 29, 2024)”In their words29 September 2024**Quoted in Silvia Bombino, Federico Faggin: «Dio c'è e si chiama Uno», 13 October 2022 (Faggin's father translated the Plotinus EnneadsRead the whole statement

2022“Humanity is at a crossroads. Either it returns to the belief that it has a different nature than machines or it will be reduced to a machine among machines.”In their words13 October 2022L'umanità è a un bivio. O torna a credere di avere una natura diversa rispetto alle macchine o sarà ridotta a macchina tra le macchine. IlRead the whole statement

“Artificial intelligence does not have the capacity to be creative. True creativity leads to what has never existed, it goes far beyond combining what already exists.”In their words13 October 2022**Quoted in Silvia Bombino, Federico Faggin: «Dio c'è e si chiama Uno», 13 October 2022 (Faggin's father translated the Plotinus EnneadsRead the whole statement

“We are spiritual beings, temporarily imprisoned in a physical body that is similar to a machine. But we are much more than a machine.”In their words13 October 2022Siamo esseri spirituali, temporaneamente imprigionati in un corpo fisico simile a una macchina. Ma siamo molto più di una macchina. SiamoRead the whole statement

“A robot won't ever be able to be like us, it is solely a symbolic representation, it does what we ask to it to do.”In their words13 October 2022Un robot non potrà mai essere come noi, è solo una rappresentazione simbolica, fa quello che gli diciamo di fare. Con il professore GiacomoRead the whole statement

“Consciousness is the ability to understand, that is, to be able to have a sentient experience of sensations and feelings and to understand their meaning.”In their words13 October 2022La coscienza è la capacità di capire, cioè di poter vivere un’esperienza senziente fatta di sensazioni e sentimenti e di capirne ilRead the whole statement

2019Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian RepublicAward2018Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceAward2014Enrico Fermi PrizeAward2009Computer History Museum FellowAwardNational Medal of Technology and InnovationAward1997Kyoto Prize in Advanced TechnologyAward1996National Inventors Hall of FameAward1994W. Wallace McDowell AwardAward1988Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian RepublicAwardMarconi PrizeAward1941Born1 December 1941

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Faggin at the Computer History Museum's 2009 Fellows Award event

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Wired Next Festa Trentino (September 29, 2024)
Sep 29, 2024, **Quoted in Silvia Bombino, Federico Faggin: «Dio c'è e si chiama Uno», 13 October 2022 (Faggin's father translated the Plotinus Enneads, Own words
Humanity is at a crossroads. Either it returns to the belief that it has a different nature than machines or it will be reduced to a machine among machines.
Oct 13, 2022, L'umanità è a un bivio. O torna a credere di avere una natura diversa rispetto alle macchine o sarà ridotta a macchina tra le macchine. Il, Own words
Not even the most advanced form of artificial intelligence can ever replace man.
Oct 13, 2022, Nemmeno la forma più evoluta di intelligenza artificiale potrà mai sostituire l'uomo. Perché nell'essere umano esiste qualcosa di, Own words

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Awards

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic2019

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science2018

Enrico Fermi Prize2014

National Medal of Technology and Innovation2009

Computer History Museum Fellow2009

Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology1997

National Inventors Hall of Fame1996

W. Wallace McDowell Award1994

Marconi Prize1988

Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic1988

About this person

Federico Faggin is an Italian-American physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. He is best known for designing the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. He led the 4004 (MCS-4) project and the design group during the first five years of Intel's microprocessor effort. Faggin also created, while working at Fairchild Semiconductor in 1968, the self-aligned MOS (metal-oxide-semiconductor) silicon-gate technology (SGT), which made possible MOS semiconductor memory chips, CCD image sensors, and the microprocessor. After the 4004, he led development of the Intel 8008 and 8080, using his SGT methodology for random logic chip design, which was essential to the creation of early Intel microprocessors. He was co-founder and CEO of Zilog, the first company solely dedicated to microprocessors, and led the development of the Zilog Z80 and Z8 processors. He was later the co-founder and CEO of Cygnet Technologies, and then Synaptics.

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