A CPU collector/enthusiast has taken the top off of an Intel 4004 processor and taken pictures of the chip's insides, showing ...

Can you believe it has been 50 years since Intel released the Intel 4004 processor, the world's first commercially available microprocessor. 50 years from that day, we have Intel's new 12th Gen Core ...

These days we are blessed with multicore 64-bit monster CPUs that can calculate an entire moon mission’s worth of instructions in the blink of an eye. Once upon a time, though, the state of the art ...

The world's first microprocessor – the Intel 4004 – first leapt onto the stage in 1971, which is 37 years ago as I pen these words. (Before you start emailing me saying “Ha, the 4004 wasn't the first ...

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.

Linux is a modern operating system that supports all of the latest technologies, but it's also a legacy-friendly system that dates back to 1991. If it's a computer, you can probably run Linux on it, ...

Four decades ago today -- November 15, 1971 -- Intel placed an advertisement for the first single-chip CPU, the Intel 4004, in Electronic News. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...

The big picture: Intel forever changed the trajectory of computing - and really, human history - with the introduction of the first commercially available microprocessor. The Intel 4004 launched 50 ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn and Mene Ukueberuwa. Images: Acton Institute/AP/AFP via Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly The world changed on Nov.

Yesterday was the 50th birthday of the the Intel 4004 microprocessor, which was the first computer chip carved onto silicon. The microprocessor moved humany from dependence on IBM mainframes were kept ...

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[Scott Baker] is at it again and this time he has built a 4-bit single board computer based on the Intel 4004 microprocessor. In the board design [Scott] covers the CPU (both the Intel 4004 and 4040 ...