At that time the block diagram and basic specification were done and included the CPU architecture and ... Some at Intel also wondered whether or not the 4004 could be used for more than just a ...

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.

Intel announced its 4004 processor and its chipset through an ad in Electronic News on November 15, 1971, making them the first complete CPU on one chip and the first commercially available ...

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.

And in 1971 Intel started advertising a chip called the 4004. I don't remember noticing that at the time but the semiconductor company has dominated my working life from 1987, until, er, now.

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.