We recently looked at the origins of the integrated circuit (IC) and the calculator, which was the IC’s first killer app, but a surprise twist is that the calculator played a big part in the invention ...

Today on the 40th anniversary of the 4004, the world's first microprocessor, the world should salute Intel and the three inventors of that microchip for the accomplishment. But let's not forget that a ...

The integrated chip greatly improved the use for transistors, but it could only do what it was originally programmed to do. It couldn't change programs, and it certainly couldn't remember anything.

The foundation of modern computing was something of an accident. The Intel 4004 Microprocessor, which debuted thirty years ago Thursday, sparked a technological revolution because it was the first ...

When Busicom contracted with Intel in April 1969 to create a series of custom chips for five upcoming calculators, neither company realized it was creating the template for what ultimately came to be ...

Forty years ago today, electronics and semiconductor trade newspaper Electronic News ran an advertisement for a new kind of chip. The Intel 4004, a $60 chip in a 16-pin dual in-line package, was an ...

When a Japanese calculator company called Busicom asked Intel to make chips for a calculator it was not seen as a big deal. “The Busicom people arrived on a Friday (June 20th 1969). That night I went ...

Last Friday July 11th Ted Hoff told the story of how the first microprocessor was invented. This week, Masatoshi Shima of Busicom, tells how it was designed. Last Friday July 11th Ted Hoff told the ...

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 ...