Before the microprocessor, computers used bulky circuit boards but now these CPUs are ... With all the millions of parts, ...

We recently looked at the origins of the integrated circuit (IC ... the calculator played a big part in the invention of the next world-changing marvel, the microprocessor. There is some dispute ...

All the building blocks of an electronic circuit -- transistors, diodes, capacitors, resistors, etc. -- could be placed on a small board and ... for a patent on this microprocessor in 1970.

Hardware hacker Dmitry Grinberg recently achieved what might sound impossible: booting Linux on the Intel 4004, the world's first commercial microprocessor ... a custom circuit board with no ...