Federico Faggin is a physician, inventor, entrepreneur and writer who was born, raised and educated in Italy and who invented and developed the MOS Silicon Gate technology at Fairchild Semiconductor in 1968 and designed the world’s first microprocessor at Intel in 1970-71.
Faggin also founded and led Zilog and Synaptics, two successful high-tech companies, before creating the Federico and Elvia Faggin Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the science of consciousness. Faggin published Silicio (Silicon) (Mondadori 2019) and Irriducibile (Irreducible) (Mondadori, 2022), two best-sellers.
Faggin received many awards including the Marconi Prize, the Kyoto Prize, the National Medal for Technology and Innovation from President Barack Obama and the title of Knight of the Grand Cross from the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella.
