Four decades ago today -- November 15, 1971 -- Intel placed an advertisement for the first single-chip CPU, the Intel 4004, in Electronic News.

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 ...

Intel celebrates 50 years since the Intel 4004, comparing it to the new 12th Gen Core 'Alder Lake': 2300 transistors vs billions.

To pull oneself up by one's bootstraps Linux boots in 4.76 days on the Intel 4004 Historic 4-bit microprocessor from 1971 can execute Linux commands over days or weeks.

The 4-bit Intel 4004 from 1971 predates the modern PC and the x86 CPU, but that doesn't mean it can be used to run Linux... very, very slowly.

Programmer and hardware enthusiast Dmitry Grinberg has shared a video in which he boots and runs commands on an Intel 4004-powered PC running Linux. The video demonstrates the excruciating time to ...

Intel 4004 is already 50 years old, the first multi-purpose microprocessor from Intel Corporation.

Intel's 4004 turned 50 today -- Happy birthday to the first commercial CPU ever built.

The world changed on Nov. 15, 1971, and hardly anyone noticed. It is the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Intel 4004 microprocessor, a computer carved onto silicon, an element as plentiful on ...

Intel celebrated the 40th birthday of the 4004, the first all-in-one CPU. Read on to see what one of its designers has to say.

Intel is marking 50 years since the launch of the Intel 4004, the world's first commercially available microprocessor. Intel's CEO said the launch of the 4004 is what made computing really take off.