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 build bigger CPUs, it’s been mostly forgotten.

Some at Intel also wondered whether or not the 4004 could be used for more than just a calculator. But at one point Faggin used the 4004 itself to make a tester for the 4004, proving that there ...

Four decades ago today -- November 15, 1971 -- Intel placed an advertisement for the first single-chip CPU, the Intel 4004, in Electronic News.

Intel’s original CPU, the 4004, was built as a calculator chip, but an incredible system has been built around it that can run Debian.

Programmer and hardware enthusiast Dmitry Grinberg has shared a video in which he boots and runs commands on an Intel 4004-powered PC running Linux. The video demonstrates the excruciating time to ...

Linux boots in 4.76 days on the Intel 4004 Historic 4-bit microprocessor from 1971 can execute Linux commands over days or weeks.

Intel specifically designed the 4004 to power the Busicom 141-PF, a calculator manufactured in Japan, so its list of operations was essentially adding and subtracting. It had no logic functions.

An incredibly dedicated and talented enthusiast has managed to boot Linux on a 4-bit microprocessor meant for pocket calculators from 1971.

The Intel 4004, the first commercial microprocessor, was released in 1971. With 2,300 transistors packed into 12mm2, it heralded a revolution in computing. A little over 50 years later, Apple’s ...

The 4-bit Intel 4004 from 1971 predates the modern PC and the x86 CPU, but that doesn't mean it can be used to run Linux... very, very slowly.

Intel created the world's first commercial microprocessor chip — the Intel 4004 — in 1971, and the company was a major factor in the rise of Silicon Valley as a high-tech center.

Intel, long the most valuable U.S. chipmaker, is now a fraction of the size of Nvidia by market cap, and smaller than Qualcomm, Broadcom, Texas Instruments, and AMD.