Paper – How we made the microprocessor
beSpacific 2018-01-18
Summary:
The Intel 4004 is renowned as the world’s first commercial microprocessor. Project leader and designer of the 4004, Federico Faggin, retraces the steps leading to its invention. Nature Electronics 1, 88 (2018) doi:10.1038/s41928-017-0014-8. “Computers were, at first, a decidedly unintegrated technology. They were composed of vacuum tubes, resistors, capacitors, inductors and mercury delay lines, and […]