Intel celebrates today (Mon 15.11) the anniversary of the launch of the processorIntel 4004 Of the company, a chip created “accidentally” from a change in the design of the chips designed to run a calculator, a mistake created by a processor that offered the computing power of a computer that once occupied an entire room within a nail-only chip and paved the way for today’s modern processors.
Intel’s Intel 4004 processor has changed the field of micro-chips and with it the world based on them today. It began as part of an Intel project for the Japanese company Nippon Calculating Machine Corp., which in 1969 asked Intel to design chips for the company’s Busicom 141-PF calculator.
Although the original design of the chips for the calculator was designed to consist of 12 separate chips, Intel engineers at the time combined them into only 4 chips, including the Intel 4004 processor that offered processing power of a “mainframe computer” that once occupied an entire room, with a chip-only chip . Unlike Intel’s latest Alder Lake processors, which contain billions of transistors compressed up to 16 cores in a 300 mm square area and reach a frequency of 5.2GHz, the Intel 4004 chip came in a size of 2 inches and had a single 4-bit core and 2300 Transistors operating at a frequency of 750kHz.
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Pat Glasinger, CEO of Intel Global, said:
This year we mark the anniversary of the launch of the 4004 processor, the pioneer of modern technology that we all thank for the Waldo. If you think about all the achievements we have reached in the last half century, you will immediately understand that this is a moment of great importance in the history of technology, because it is this chip that has formed the basis for the world of computing and allowed it to soar to new heights. As we look forward to the next 50 years and beyond, we are excited to continue to lead innovation that will continue to impact uniquely and innovatively to what it has seen before.
Federico Pajin, a former Intel engineer and the man who designed and manufactured the Intel 4004 with Ted Hoff and Stan Mazur, said:
Looking back as early as 1970 it was clear that processors were changing the way we design systems and move from hardware to software. However, the speed with which processors evolved over time and were adopted by the industry surprised us as well.
Intel 4004 Chip Chart (Intel Source)
Intel 4004 Chip Chart (Intel Source)
It is very difficult to imagine the world around us today without the tiny chips that are found in virtually everything today, from our personal computer to the mobile device we use. In the last 50 years since the launch of Intel’s 4004 until today the world has changed dramatically, which probably would not have happened at the same pace if three engineers at Intel had not decided to change the design of 12 chips to just 4.
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