Half a century ago, Intel’s 4004 chip was born, ushering in the digital revolution. Take a closer look at the little chip that changed the world, altered India’s place in it, and quietly powers modern ...

Microprocessors are getting so tiny that they’re actually small enough for quantum mechanics to start affecting their performance. That’s bad news for traditional computing, but it’s led to a ...

Vintage microprocessors usually do something, be it just sitting in an idle loop, calculating something, or simply looking cool in a collector’s cabinet. [Lee] has come up with a vastly cooler use for ...

Sunday, November 15 marked the 44th anniversary of the Intel 4004, which was the company's first commercially available microprocessor. The 4-bit microprocessor was used in the likes of calculators ...

Whatever device you're using right now to read these words —be it a PC, a tablet, or a mobile phone— owes its very existence to a tiny sliver of silicon developed 40 years ago today, November 15.