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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. Forg… ...

Hardware hacker Dmitry Grinberg recently achieved what might sound impossible: booting Linux on the Intel 4004, the world's first commercial microprocessor.With just 2,300 transistors and an ...

The Intel 4004 was a 740 kHz 4-bit processor with only 2,600 transistors and 16 registers. Intel specifically designed the 4004 to power the Busicom 141-PF, a calculator manufactured in Japan, so ...

An iconic processor for an iconic PC. The Intel 8088 Micro-processor ran at 5MHz, representing a 50-times speed boost against the 4004 chip eight years before, and it included 29,000 transistors ...

Known as the Intel 4004, it had 2300 transistors, each about 10 µm in size and sold for $60. But as Moore predicted, the number of transistors on integrated circuits would quickly rise. By the early ...

The Intel 4004, the first commercial microprocessor, was released in 1971. With 2,300 transistors packed into 12mm2, it heralded a revolution in computing. A little over 50 years later, Apple’s ...

1971 - Intel introduces the 4004, ... 1981 - Intel's 8088 microprocessor, with 29,000 transistors, becomes the brain in the IBM Personal Computer, kicking off the era of personal computing.