There is some dispute as to which company invented the microprocessor, and we’ll talk about that further down. But who invented the first commercially available microprocessor? That honor goes ...

The Tomcat was the first aircraft to use a microprocessor-driven flight system, as well as the first microprocessor unit (MPU) ever demonstrated, beating the Intel 4004 by a year. In 1971 ...

China’s chip industry has reached a major milestone after scientists developed the world’s most complex semiconductor ...

He applied for a patent on this microprocessor in 1970. The following year, while his paper work wended its way through the patent office, three engineers from Intel Corporation created the first ...

The Intel 8080A chip, introduced in 1974, is widely regarded by engineers as the first commercially viable general-purpose ...

The first microprocessor. 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 ...

1972: Gary Kildall writes PL/M, the first high-level programming language for the Intel microprocessor. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are building and selling "blue boxes" in Southern California in ...

Semiconductor giant Intel is set to release its first 4GHz microprocessor "within weeks". The new part will potentially kick-start the so-called "gigahertz wars", the competition between Intel and ...

Despite the short test flight, Isar Aerospace stated that it successfully completed the first test flight of its orbital ...

The Test Center took a first look at the Core i7-965 Extreme Edition, installed in Intel's "SmackOver" motherboard, the DX58SO Extreme Series. Along with the DX58SO, our test kit included three ...

Introduction The ARM® Cortex™-A8 microprocessor is the first applications microprocessor in ARM’s new Cortex family. With high performance and power efficiency, it targets a wide variety of mobile and ...