The project took about 2 years to complete and re-creates it faithfully – all 2,300 transistors included – enough to run software written for the Intel 4004.

The 4004 integrated the different CPU components into one 2,300-transistor chip. 4004 wasn't just a new direction for the computer industry; it was also a new direction for Intel.

Instead, the 4004 contained 2,300 transistors on a chip the size of a fingernail and assembled in a new random logic design.

The project took about 2 years to complete and re-creates it faithfully – all 2,300 transistors included – enough to run software written for the Intel 4004.

Transistors are semiconductor devices that regulate current, amplify signals, and act as switches, forming the foundation of modern electronics.

The 4004 was built in 10-µm CMOS, with 4 bits of processing power, 2300 transistors, and a 740-kHz clock. By 2011, 28-nm devices at 3.9 billion transistors were commercially available, and even ...

Fifty years ago this month, Intel introduced the first commercial microprocessor, the 4004. Microprocessors are tiny, general-purpose chips that use integrated circuits made up of transistors to ...

Depending on the amount of cache, we are now looking at CPUs with between 200 and 800 million transistors -- a far cry from the 2,300 found in the 4004 CPU some 40 years ago.

The 4004 had 2,300 transistors. Contrast that with today's CPUs from Intel with around 100 billion transistors for Ponte Vecchio, the company’s most complex system-on-chip, released in August 2021.

Intel unveiled on its website that each of the 45nm transistors in the upcoming 8-core Xeon processors uses 1/7,000th the power and takes up 1/40,000th the area of the original 4004 transistors ...

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 ...

Intel's groundbreaking 8008 microprocessor was produced over 50 years ago, the ancestor of the x86 processor family that you may be using right now.