Currently, electric cars and various sophisticated electronic devices such as smartphones, laptops, computers can operate because they are brained by a small processor/chip (microchip). But you know, it turns out that the microchip has been around for 50 years. The emergence of the world’s first microchip was marked by the birth of the Intel 4004 on November 15, 1971. The Intel 4004 is touted as the world’s first commercial microprocessor, which is produced the size of a fingernail, but is claimed to still be able to provide good computing capabilities.
Starting from a chip for a calculator See Photo Calculator Busicom 141-PF which uses the world’s first commercial microchip, the Intel 4004.(Intel) The birth of the Intel 4004 microchip began when the company Nippon Calculating Machine Corp asked Intel to design 12 custom chips (integrated circuits) in 1969. The chip was intended to be used for Nippon Calculating Machine Corp’s new Busicom 141-PF print calculator. But instead of designing the 12 custom chips requested, three Intel engineers at the time, Federico Faggin, Stan Mazor and Marcian E. (Ted) Hoff instead designed a set consisting of four chips, including the Intel 4001, 4002, 4003, and 4004. .
The Intel 4004 itself, which was made the size of a fingernail, turned out to be able to provide the same computing power as the first electronic computer made in 1946, which was almost the size of a room.
The forerunner of today’s Intel processors
Starting from a chip for calculator needs, the Intel 4004 is said to be the forerunner of the current Intel chip that is used in various modern devices. According to Intel, the invention of the Intel 4004 succeeded in forming a new random logic design methodology, which became the foundation for the next generation of microprocessors.
After that, over time, the Intel 4004 microchip technology evolved to create the chip that is now used in various modern devices.
Whether it’s evolution in terms of the number of transistors, the number of cores and threads, the production process, to the diameter of the wafer used.
Most recently, Intel has just introduced a 12th generation Core processor which is named “Alder Lake”. These Alder Lake processors feature a combination of Performance-cores (P-cores), the most high-performance CPU cores Intel has ever designed, and Efficient-cores (E-cores) designed for scalable, multi-threaded workload performance. In addition, the six Intel Alder Lake processors that have been launched are the first processors built using Intel 7 process technology. The following is a comparison list of specifications for the first Intel 4004 (1971) microchip with the latest Intel Alder Lake (2021) processor.
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