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Most business texts credit engineer Ted Hoff at Intel Corp., based in Santa Clara, Calif., with having fathered the microprocessor between 1969 and 1971. But Hyatt asserts that he put together the requisite technology a year earlier at his short-lived company, Micro Computer Inc., whose major investors included Intel's founders, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore. Micro Computer invented a digital computer that controlled machine tools, then fell apart in 1971 after a dispute between Hyatt and his venture-capital partners over sharing his rights to that invention. Noyce and Moore went on to develop Intel into...
...Hoff still believes that his Intel group legitimately beat Hyatt to the punch. Yet some patent lawyers say Hyatt's new patent appears to apply to all microprocessor chips and the millions of personal computers and other products (from pocket calculators to videocassette recorders) that depend on them. Industry executives by and large are keeping mum, but if Hyatt's patent is broadly interpreted by courts, it could make him super-rich. According to analysts, a standard nonexclusive licensing fee of 3% of the value of computer products sold would translate into a $210 million payment just for last year...
...Nayak '92 Susan E. Owen '92 P. Peter Pen '93 Eric S. Solowey '91 Maggie S. Tucker '93 Rebecca L. Walkowitz '92 Editorial Editors: Joshua M. Sharfstein '91 Feature Editors: Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Photo Editors: William H. Bachman '92 David Herne '93 Lydia S. Hoff '92 Debra A. Schafer '93 Laura E. Smith '91 Ali F. Zaidi '92 Kimberly A. Ziev '93 Business Editors: Michael S. Harwayne '91 Sarah B. Kirshbaum '93 Paul G. Perez '88 Stuff Chairs: Julian E. Barnes '93 Lan N. Nguyen '93 Copy Editor: G. Bartholomew Kasowski...
...Susan E. Owen '92 Joseph R. Palmore '91 P. Peter Pan '93 Michael D. Stankiewicz '90-'91 Madhavi `4' Sunder '92 Maggie S. Tucker '93 Rebecca L. Walkowitz '92 Editorial Editor: Joshua M. Sharfstein '91 Feature Editor: Joseph R. Palmore '91 Photo Editors: William H. Bachman '92 Lydia S. Hoff '92 Debra A. Schaefer '93 Kim A. Ziev '93 Ali F. Zaidi...
...Susan B. Glasser '90 Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Kelly A.E. Mason '92 Joseph R. Palmore '91 Arts Editor: Katherine E. Bliss '90 Features Editor: Spencer S. Hsu '90 Sports Editor: Michael R. Grunwald '92 Michael D. Stankiewicz '90-'91 Photo Editors: Nichole D. Grier '92 Lydia S. Hoff '92 Ali F. Zaidi '92 Business Editor: Andrew R. Jassey '90 Copy Editor: Stephen E. Frug...