The Invention of the Microprocessor

In November 19971, Intel (Integrated Electronics) showed the world the first single chip microprocessor. Called the Intel 4004 (U.S.patent #3,821,715), It was created by the Intel engineers Frederico Faggin, Ted Hoff, and Stan Mazor. The idea of the single chip microprocessor first came to mind when a possible Japanese client asked for twelve custom chips to be designed. Intel did not have enough workers, so they came up with the idea of putting it all on to one chip. Nine months later, the hard work came through and they had made the world's first single chip microprocessor. This down sized the idea of integrated circuits and made it possible for inanimate objects to have intelligence. The model of the Intel 4004 is still used today.

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