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development of the 8008 was wrapping up. Much to his surprise and frustration, however, Intel didn't approve the project. Faggin says that Intel wanted to see how the market would react to the 4004 and 8008 first, while others noted the problems Intel was having getting its latest generation of memory chips out the door and wanted to focus on that. As a result, Intel didn't approve of the project until fall of that year. Faggin hired Masatoshi Shima, who helped design the logic of the 4004 with him, from

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