Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Intel 4004, world's first commercial microprocessor, celebrates 40th birthday, few really cares

Intel 4004, world's first commercial microprocessor, celebrates 40th birthday, few really cares

Pull out the candles and champagne, because the Intel 4004 is celebrating a major birthday today — the big four-oh. That's right, it's been exactly four decades since Intel unveiled the world's first commercially available CPU, with an Electronic News ad that ran on November 15th, 1971. Yes, the computer is that old. It all began in 1969, when Japan's Nippon Calculating Machine Corporation asked Intel to create 12 chips for its Busicom 141-PF calculator.

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