“We invented HDL, the Intel Hardware Description Language. I wrote my own language. ... we created a compiler for the language.”

Pat Gelsinger · The a16z Show · Chips, Memory, and Power | Pat Gelsinger

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Created Intel Hardware Description Language (HDL) and built a compiler for it to describe chip designs before Verilog existed

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