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Intel 8080 CPU Chip Development
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Stanley Mazor, "Intel 8080 CPU Chip Development," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 70-73, April-June, 2007.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MAHC.2007.25,
author = {Stanley Mazor},
title = {Intel 8080 CPU Chip Development},
journal ={IEEE Annals of the History of Computing},
volume = {29},
number = {2},
issn = {1058-6180},
year = {2007},
pages = {70-73},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MAHC.2007.25},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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One of the chip developers of the Intel 8080 8-bit CPU chip describes some of the key architectural decisions and the history of this very early microprocessor.

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Index Terms:
Intel 8080, CPU, history, microchip, microcomputer, microprocessor
Citation:
Stanley Mazor, "Intel 8080 CPU Chip Development," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 70-73, Apr.-June 2007, doi:10.1109/MAHC.2007.25
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