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 helped ...

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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 ...

On November 15th 1971, Intel released its 4004 processor. Its release marked one of the key foundations of the modern computer age. Some of the core concepts from this processor live on today in ...

CPU collector and enthusiast CPU Duke was given the opportunity to "pop the hood" off Intel's first-ever multi-purpose microprocessor, the 4004. In a post on X, the CPU collector removed the top ...

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 ...

Computers have been around for decades, longer than most of us, and there's a big difference between a CPU from 2024 versus one from 2014. Rewind the clock to 1971, and you have the first commercially ...

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To celebrate the 40th birthday of the Intel 4004 -- the first single-chip CPU -- we're going to take a look at the history of Intel's microprocessors. We'll start with the 4004 but quickly move onto ...

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, ...

WTF?! A well-known hacker has done the impossible. He got a stripped-down version of Linux to run on a 4-bit Intel chip from the early 1970s. Sure, it takes nearly five days for the kernel to boot, ...