mar 11, 1971 - First microprocessor
Description:
Intel introduces the first microprocessorAdvertisement for Intel's 4004
Computer History Museum
The first advertisement for a microprocessor, the Intel 4004, appears in Electronic News. Developed for Busicom, a Japanese calculator maker, the 4004 had 2250 transistors and could perform up to 90,000 operations per second in four-bit chunks. Federico Faggin led the design and Ted Hoff led the architecture.
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Date:
mar 11, 1971
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~ 53 years ago
