That history is a bit muddled so let me clarify. I'm a big fan of Federico Faggin, but Stan Mazor, Ted Hoff, and Masatoshi Shima are also co-inventors of the 40

That history is a bit muddled so let me clarify. I'm a big fan of Federico Faggin, but Stan Mazor, Ted Hoff, and Masatoshi Shima are also co-inventors of the 4004. Next, the 4004 had approximately nothing to do with later processors including the 8088. The 8008 was built to copy the design of the TTL-based Datapoint 2200 computer. (TI produced its copy, the TMX 1795, before Intel produced the 8008.) Datapoint rejected the 8008 so Intel sold it as a product. The 8008 was followed by the 8080 and 8085 and then extended to the 16-bit 8086. The 8086 was intended as a temporary stopgap until Intel completed the iPAX 432, their flagship processor. (The "micromainframe" 432 was a failure.) Intel Israel created a lower-cost version of the 8086 with an 8-bit bus. This was the 8088, which was used in the IBM PC, creating the success of the x86 architecture.