This is quite a bit bigger than the original 12mm² die. The Intel 4004 was among the first microprocessors and one of the first to use the MOS silicon-gate technology. In the decades long race to ...

It was my original plan to use TI Little Logic to build a big-enough-to-see 4004, but when I saw the schematics, it was all at the transistor level, and there was never any logic diagram according ...

A schematic diagram offers details of the Intel 4004 microprocessor. 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.

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With just 2,300 transistors and an original clock speed of 740 kHz, the 1971 CPU is incredibly primitive by modern standards. And it's slow—it takes about 4.76 days for the Linux kernel to boot.

Intel engineer Faggin and his team adapted the original plans for 12 custom chips and designed a set of four chips - including the 4004 CPU - that met the challenge.

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 ...

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 ...