The Tomcat was the first aircraft to use a microprocessor-driven flight system, as well as the first microprocessor unit (MPU) ever demonstrated, beating the Intel 4004 by a year. In 1971 ...

There is some dispute as to which company invented the microprocessor, and we’ll talk about that further down. But who invented the first commercially available microprocessor? That honor goes ...

The first microprocessor. Designed by Marcian E. "Ted" Hoff at Intel in 1971, the 4004 was a 4-bit, general-purpose CPU initially developed for the Japanese Busicom calculator. Running at a clock ...

Pragmatic Semiconductor has published a blog announcing the hyper-flexible chip, which it says is the "world's first 32-bit microprocessor in a flexible technology that is fully functional while ...

1972: Gary Kildall writes PL/M, the first high-level programming language for the Intel microprocessor. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are building and selling "blue boxes" in Southern California in ...

Introduction The ARM® Cortex™-A8 microprocessor is the first applications microprocessor in ARM’s new Cortex family. With high performance and power efficiency, it targets a wide variety of mobile and ...

Also at DevCon, Microsoft and microprocessor partner Transmeta announced that the Transmeta Crusoe processor is the first microprocessor to be certified by Microsoft for the new Windows XP ...