The story begins with a Japanese calculator. Intel 4004, the first commercial microprocessor, was a 4-bit processor with 2,300 transistors and 740 kHz frequency. It was designed by Intel's Federico Faggin, Stanley Mazor and Ted Hoff, and Busicom's Masatoshi Shima, for the Busicom 141-PF calculator, and arrived at the market on November 15, 1971.
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The story begins with a Japanese calculator. Intel 4004, the first commercial microprocessor, was a 4-bit processor with 2,300 transistors and 740 kHz frequency. It was designed by Intel's Federico Faggin, Stanley Mazor and Ted Hoff, and Busicom's Masatoshi Shima, for the Busicom 141-PF calculator, and arrived at the market on November 15, 1971.