Intel's Forgotten Past - How Wayne Pickette, an African-American, contributed, in his early 20's, to the invention of the ground-breaking Intel 4004, but was bypassed for credit and attribution

Interestingly, (1) the inspiration for Wayne's invention was the 74181 an Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU) on a single chip, (2) his knowledge of the PDP-8 mini-computer, (3) the futuristic book I, Robot by Isaac Asimov.

Wayne describes of events around the momentous launch of the 4004 chip, his ultimatum from Robert Noyce for going to the Las Vegas electronics exhibition with the 4004, and how his conversations with Ted Hoff led to the proposal of the 4004 for the Busicom 141-PF calculator project.

We have already seen the Silicon Valley culture of bitter defections [5] Whether there's another with regard to attribution of credit, you can be the judge after reading the articles below.

[1] Interview with Wayne Pickette: Intel's Forgotten Past
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/12/08/17088681.php

[2] The History of Computing Project (THOCP) Biography
https://www.thocp.net/biographies/pickette_wayne.html

[3] Intel 4004's Forgotten Peers
https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-first-micros-intel-4004s-forgotten-peers/

[4] Intel's Version: how the 4004 arose with the Busicom 141-PF calculator project
http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/busicom_141-pf_and_intel_4004.html

[5] Silicon Valley defections & DNA
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AssadEbrahim/posts/8baM5KENsck