The MP944 was a microprocessor for the Central Airborne Data Computer (CADC) installed on the US Navy's F-14 Tomcat fighter jets, and was developed between 1968 and 1970 by a team led by Steve Geller ...

The world's first commercially available microprocessor was launched 40 years ago today. Intel unveiled the 4004 on 15 November 1971, triggering the start of the digital revolution and enabling ...

As Faggin described it in his story on the birth of the microprocessor, "I worked furiously, 12 to 16 hours a day. First, I resolved the remaining architectural issues and then I laid down the ...

Intel will release the first microprocessor "4004" and celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. IT industryDog yearIt is often said that, as I look back on the history of Intel 's CPU, I feel that ...

This is part of a series of posts about the circumstances leading up to the launch of the Altair 8800 in the January, 1975 issue of Popular Electronics. In my last post, I talked about the dawn of the ...

The fifth in our Friday weekly series on the invention of the microprocessor is an account of how, after getting the world’s first microprocessor, the 4004, into silicon, Dr Federico Faggin set about ...

Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary since Intel released its first microprocessor, the 4004. The company hosted an event in San Francisco to pay homage to the chip, with executives taking the ...

Forty years ago today, electronics and semiconductor trade newspaper Electronic News ran an advertisement for a new kind of chip. The Intel 4004, a $60 chip in a 16-pin dual in-line package, was an ...

Last Friday July 11th Ted Hoff told the story of how the first microprocessor was invented. This week, Masatoshi Shima of Busicom, tells how it was designed. Last Friday July 11th Ted Hoff told the ...

The Microprocessor at 50: How the 4004 Changed The World The first general-purpose processor of the modern age came off the line today in 1971 to power a calculator. It changed the world.