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.

Four decades ago today -- November 15, 1971 -- Intel placed an advertisement for the first single-chip CPU, the Intel 4004, in Electronic News (Opens in a new window).Designed by the fantastically ...

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.

Linux boots in 4.76 days on the Intel 4004 Historic 4-bit microprocessor from 1971 can execute Linux commands over days or weeks. Benj Edwards – Sep 23, 2024 2:48 pm | 151 A photo of ...

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. News.

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 ...

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. FOr comparison, a modern CPU can contain billions of transistors and ...

Intel 4004 is the first commercially produced microprocessor from Intel, launched back in 1971 for $60. It is also the world's first general-purpose CPU in a compact single-chip form-factor, which ...

Intel's 4004 would be replaced by the 8008, 8080, 8085, and, eventually, the 8086. Faggin would go on to found Zilog, an early competitor (to who?) whose Z80 CPU was popular in the late 1970s and ...

It is the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Intel 4004 microprocessor, a computer carved onto silicon, an element as plentiful on earth as sand on a beach.

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 ...