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Today is the birthday of Intels first commercially available microprocessor.
Intel purchased the rights from Nippon Calculating Machine Corporation and launched the Intel 4004 processor and its chipset with an advertisement in the November 15, 1971, issue of Electronic News: Announcing A New Era In Integrated Electronics. Thats when the Intel 4004 became the first general-purpose programmable processor on the marketa "building block" that engineers could purchase and then customize with software to perform different functions in a wide variety of electronic devices.
Intel purchased the rights from Nippon Calculating Machine Corporation and launched the Intel 4004 processor and its chipset with an advertisement in the November 15, 1971, issue of Electronic News: Announcing A New Era In Integrated Electronics. Thats when the Intel 4004 became the first general-purpose programmable processor on the marketa "building block" that engineers could purchase and then customize with software to perform different functions in a wide variety of electronic devices.
