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The Birth of Chipzilla

Or, the early history of Intel Corporation

Sasaki then invested 40 million yen into his friends Yoshio Kojima’s company, Bijikon Kabushiki-gaisha (or Busicom), in Nara, Japan which gave him quite a bit of influence there, and allowed him to work on a CMOS calculator with Intel. True to his word, Alroy bought a bunch of 8008s and delivered the world’s first complete, pre-assembled, commercially produced, microcomputer system to the Litcom Division of Litton Industries on Long Island on the 11th of December in 1972. The release of the 8008 brought microcomputers to the world, the memory business was booming, and Intel began expanding to Livermore with Fab3, and to Penang, Malaysia with a site dedicated initially to assembly, but later growing to handle test, design, development, sales, services, and marketing for the region.

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