The 4004 block diagram. Image by Despite these difficulties, Faggin delivered the CPU by December of 1970. ... Intel's 4004 would be replaced by the 8008, 8080, 8085, and, ...

A schematic diagram offers details of the Intel 4004 microprocessor. The Intel 4004 was a 4-bit chip built on a 10 µm node. It packed 2,300 transistors and operated at a clock speed of 740KHz.

This month marks the 50th anniversary of Intel's 4004 processor, the first commercially available microprocessor built on a single chip. Originally designed for a Japanese desk calculator, it ...

The Intel 4004 processor in November 1971 and acted as the "brains" the virtually the foundation of technology as we know it: from your smartphone to your desktop PC, right up into the cloud.

Intel writes that the fingernail-sized 4004 "delivered the same computing power as the first electronic computer built in 1946, which filled an entire room." But we've come a long way since then.

What you need to know. Intel is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its 4004 microprocessing chip. It is the invention that paved the way for microprocessors as we know them today.

Texas Instruments' TMS 1000 first hit the market in calculators in 1974, but TI claimed it was invented in 1971, before the 4004. Moreover, TI was awarded a patent in 1973 for the microprocessor ...

50 years ago today, on November 15 1971, Intel launched the 4004 and, by extension, the modern computer age. The 4004 was the first commercially-produced microprocessor, or CPU.