nov 15, 1971 - The Intel 4004, the first commercially available microprocessor, is released.
It contains the equivalent of 2,300 transistors and was a 4-bit processor.
It is capable of around 60,000 instructions per second (0.06 MIPS),
running at a maximum clock speed of 740 kHz.
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