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According to Federico Faggin[1]:

The 8008 used P-channel silicon gate MOS technology and was packaged in an 18-pin package: a very poor choice, imposed by Intel management’s aversion to high pin-count packages.

[1]: http://www.intel4004.com/qa8008_8080.htm



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