The Intel 4004 was among the first microprocessors and one of the first to use the MOS silicon-gate technology. In the decades long race to build bigger CPUs, it’s been mostly forgotten.

Turning a bunch of masks for silicon fabrication into a schematic is actually harder than it seems! [Tim McNerney] originally came up with the idea to make a giant 4004 for its “35th anniversary”.

The Intel 4004, a $60 chip in a 16-pin dual in-line package, was an entire CPU packed onto a single integrated circuit (IC).

Linux boots in 4.76 days on the Intel 4004 Historic 4-bit microprocessor from 1971 can execute Linux commands over days or weeks.

Programmer and hardware enthusiast Dmitry Grinberg has shared a video in which he boots and runs commands on an Intel 4004-powered PC running Linux. The video demonstrates the excruciating time to ...

A schematic diagram offers details of the Intel 4004 microprocessor. The Intel 4004 was a 4-bit chip built on a 10 µm node. It packed 2,300 transistors and operated at a clock speed of 740KHz.

WTF?! A well-known hacker has done the impossible. He got a stripped-down version of Linux to run on a 4-bit Intel chip from the early 1970s. Sure, it takes nearly five days for the kernel to boot ...

Before the 4004, processors had their logic programming hard-wired into the physical architecture, which usually consisted of many smaller components connected to multiple printed circuit boards ...

Intel says its current chips have circuit lines ranging between 45 and 32 nanometers. Those interested in learning more about the history of the Intel 4004 can check out this page on Intel’s website.

Yesterday was the 50th birthday of the the Intel 4004 microprocessor, which was the first computer chip carved onto silicon. The microprocessor moved humany from dependence on IBM mainframes were ...

Intel's 4004 chip, first silicon-based microprocessor, was developed as part of contract company got with Japanese calculator maker.