1937 Bangor [USA] † 2019

He was an American electronic engineer, main designer of the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor, which equipped the KIM-1 microcomputer and its successor, the Commodore PET home computer.

Belonging to a generation older than "young genius" entrepreneurs like Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, Chuck Peddle's first contact with microprocessors came in 1973, when he joined Motorola to work on the design project for the 6800 microprocessor. Because it was one of the first microprocessors to hit the market, Motorola was able to price the 6800 at a premium. Peddle felt the product had been grossly overpriced and left Motorola to join MOS Technology.
He joined this relatively small company to work on the design project for another microprocessor, which in 1976 would become the MOS 6502, arguably the most successful microprocessor of the first decade of microcomputing.