Designed by Marcian E. "Ted" Hoff at Intel in 1971, the 4004 was a 4-bit, general-purpose CPU initially developed for the Japanese Busicom calculator. Running at a clock rate of 740 kHz ...

Introduced in 1971, Intel’s 4004 has a maximum clock frequency of about 700 kilohertz. In two years, according to bastardizations of Moore’s Law, this speed would double, and in two years ...

The quick version is that the programmer used a dev board as the system with an Intel 4004 processor, clock generator, RAM, a ...

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 ...