FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -Intel purchased the rights from Nippon Calculating Machine Corporation and launched the Intel® 4004 processor and its chipset with an advertisement in the November 15, 1971, issue of Electronic News: ”Announcing A New Era In Integrated Electronics.”

Detailed explanation-2: -1971: Era of integrated electronics That’s when the Intel® 4004 became the first general-purpose programmable processor on the market-a “building block” that engineers could purchase and then customize with software to perform different functions in a wide variety of electronic devices.

Detailed explanation-3: -Intel’s first notebook chip, the 386SL, arrived in 1990 as a highly integrated design with an on-chip cache, bus and memory controller. The processor had 855, 000 transistors and ran between 20 and 25 MHz.

Detailed explanation-4: -1971. The 4004 was first introduced in Japan, as the microprocessor for the Busicom 141-PF calculator, in March 1971.

Detailed explanation-5: -In November, 1971, a company called Intel publicly introduced the world’s first single chip microprocessor, the Intel 4004 (U.S. Patent #3, 821, 715), invented by Intel engineers Federico Faggin, Marcian E. (Ted) Hoff and Stan Mazor.