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 ...

Canon's AE-1 heralded a watershed in camera design, putting electronics in the hands of masses of photographers ...

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 ...

Semiconductor giant Intel is set to release its first 4GHz microprocessor "within weeks". The new part will potentially kick-start the so-called "gigahertz wars", the competition between Intel and ...

ISRO, in collaboration with Semiconductor Laboratory, Chandigarh, introduces Vikram 3201 and Kalpana 3201, fully Indian-made 32-bit microprocessors for space applications. These innovations mark India ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has announced the successful development of two advanced 32-bit microprocessors ...