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 ...

Sunday, November 15 marked the 44th anniversary of the Intel 4004, which was the company's first commercially available microprocessor. The 4-bit microprocessor was used in the likes of calculators ...

From the introduction of Intel's 4004 chip in 1971 to today's quad-core desktop chips with four processing engines, the evolution of the commercial microprocessor has come a long way in just 35 years.

The 4004 microprocessor. [Photo: Intel] On Tuesday November 15, Intel held an event in San Francisco to celebrate the fortieth birthday of its 4004 microprocessor–the first complete single-chip ...

In 1958 the integrated circuit was developed by a young engineer at Texas Instruments named Jack St. Clair Kilby. He put together a few transistors and capacitors, linking them with a thin layer of ...

If not for Ted Hoff's curiosity, we'd all be using typewriters to text our BFFs. OK, not quite. But it's hard to overstate how much Hoff's invention changed the world, even if he downplays the impulse ...

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 ...

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 ...

As NPR marks its 50th anniversary, we look back at an innovation that also changed the world in 1971: the unveiling of the first commercially... 5 decades ago, Intel unveiled the first commercially ...