Someone built a system with Intel’s first CPU that’s half a century old, and it can boot Linux – if you have a spare week to wait
You may be aware that this isn’t just any old processor, but Intel’s very first chip ... the Intel 4004 appeared in all its 4 ...
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The Nibbler: A 4-bit CPU Built With 7400 Logic
From the finished schematic above that is puzzling at first, until you realize the scope of the project. His Nibbler implements a 4-bit CPU using 7400 logic chips. Because he’s come up with the ...
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Inventing The Microprocessor: The Intel 4004
But who invented the first commercially available microprocessor ... serial-out and parallel-out shift register 4004: 4-bit CPU In April 1970, Noyce hired Federico Faggin from Fairchild in ...
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bit slice processor
An earlier logic chip used as a building block for CPUs. Bit slice processors used arithmetic logic units (ALUs) that typically came in 4-bit increments, although 1- and 2-bit devices were also made.
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PC CPU models
In 2003, AMD debuted the Opteron, its first 64-bit CPU, which was later renamed Athlon 64. Phenom processors came out in 2008. In 2017, AMD began shipping its Ryzen line based on a new Zen ...