There is some dispute as to which company invented the microprocessor ... non-existent chip design of the 4004. Busicom was understandably upset but Faggin came up with a new schedule which ...

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 ...

The first microprocessor. Designed by Marcian E. "Ted" Hoff at Intel in 1971, the 4004 ... computer CPUs were the size of a refrigerator and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Thus began the ...

When a Japanese company named BUSICOM asked Intel to make the chips for its new ... computer unto itself. Hoff designed the chip, and engineer Frederico Faggin set about building the design ...