COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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Intel Celeron
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Intel 4004
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Intel Pentium
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Intel Xenon
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Intel 4004 is a 4-bit central processing unit (CPU) released by Intel Corporation in 1971. Sold for US$60, it was the first commercially produced microprocessor, and the first in a long line of Intel CPUs.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: Italian physicist Federico Faggin invented the first commercial CPU. It was the Intel 4004 released by Intel in 1971. Then the Intel 8008 was introduced in 1972, followed by the 4040, an improved version of the 4004 in 1974.
Detailed explanation-3: -1971: Era of integrated electronics 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-4: -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.