 Tony Fuge, then a leading engineer at Inmos, was awarded the Prince Philip Designers Prize in 1987 for his work on the T414 transputer.The transputer (the name deriving from ""trans"istor" and "com"puter"") was the first general purpose microprocessor designed specifically to be used in parallel computing systems.The goal was to produce a family of chips ranging in power and cost that could be wired together to form a complete parallel computer.