Federico Faggin
Federico Faggin is an Italian physicist, inventor, and entrepreneur who designed the first commercial microprocessor at Intel.
He created the groundbreaking silicon gate technology at Fairchild Semiconductor in 1968, which enabled modern computing innovations.
Faggin co-founded Zilog, the first microprocessor-dedicated company, and later Cygnet Technologies and Synaptics.
He received the 2009 National Medal of Technology and Innovation, America's highest technological honor.
In 2011, he founded the Federico and Elvia Faggin Foundation to support scientific consciousness research at universities.
He established a $1 million endowment for the Faggin Family Presidential Chair in Physics of Information at UC Santa Cruz.
A naturalized US citizen, Faggin has lived in Silicon Valley since 1968.
