Since taking the company's helm in March, CEO Lip-Bu Tan has moved fast to cut costs and find a new path to revive the ailing U.S. chipmaker.

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 ...

Intel was founded in 1968 by semiconductor pioneers Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, who is credited with the observation known as Moore’s law. That benchmark says the number of transistors in an ...

1971 - Intel introduces the 4004, the world's first commercially made programmable microprocessor, with 2,300 transistors.

1971 - Intel introduces the 4004, the world's first commercially made programmable microprocessor, with 2,300 transistors. These were among the first chips that could be programmed to perform ...

1971 - Intel introduces the 4004, the world's first commercially made programmable microprocessor, with 2,300 transistors. These were among the first chips that could be programmed to perform ...

1971 - Intel introduces the 4004, the world's first commercially made programmable microprocessor, with 2,300 transistors. These were among the first chips that could be programmed to perform ...

Intel created the progenitor of the X86 architecture back in 1971 with the four-bit 4004 microprocessor, the first single chip, general purpose central processing unit, and one really intended for ...

– Dmitry Grinberg (@dmitrygr) September 20, 2024 The Intel 4004 was a 740 kHz 4-bit processor with only 2,600 transistors and 16 registers.

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 ...