As with the 4004, this was built for a third party—this time terminal manufacturer Datapoint—with Datapoint contributing much of the design of the instruction set, but Intel using its 4004 ...

The Intel 4004 became the first general-purpose programmable processor on the market after Nippon Calculating Machine Corp approached Intel in 1969 to design 12 custom chips for its new Busicom 141-PF ...

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 comments on what is next, after the Intel 4004: " While the 4004 delivered the modern computing era through the design and production of the first commercially available microprocessor for a ...

Intel's 4004 turned 50 today -- Happy birthday to the first commercial CPU ever built.

Recognized as the world' first commercially available processor, the Intel 4004 is now 50 years old after having launched back in November 1971.

To pull oneself up by one's bootstraps Linux boots in 4.76 days on the Intel 4004 Historic 4-bit microprocessor from 1971 can execute Linux commands over days or weeks.

A version of this design could be built using existing and popular 2 micron MEMS technology to make a chip that would equal the 4-bit Intel 4004 CPU. The Intel 4004 came out in 1971 and was the first ...

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 ...

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 turned 50 today -- Happy birthday to the first commercial CPU ever built.

Intel historian Elizabeth Jones claims a lot for the introduction of the 4004. She says that we would not have smartphones, AI that recognises facial expressions, live mapping systems and the rest.