This is the first of a new blog series, “Today in Tech” and will feature the significant technological events of specific dates throughout history. Today in Tech:
1971 – Intel announces that the world’s first commercial microprocessor – the Intel 4004 – is officially ready for shipping. The 4-bit central processing unit was designed by engineers Ted Hoff and Stan Mazor under the leadership of Federico Faggin, and with the assistance of Masatoshi Shima, an engineer from the Japanese firm Busicom. The microprocessor was designed in April of 1970 and completed in January of 1971, the same year when it was first made commercially available.
The pentium processor ready in 1971?
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Pentium??? This must be a typo: the last line of the article says “The Pentium microprocessor was designed in April of 1970 and completed in January of 1971, the same year when it was first made commercially available.” In fact, the first Pentium was actually released 22 years after that, on March 22, 1993.
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Interesting tidbit. However, I believe the 4004 was designed in April of 1970, not the pentium.
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“The Pentium microprocessor was designed in April of 1970 and completed in January of 1971, the same year when it was first made commercially available.” Uh, *no*.
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“The Pentium microprocessor was designed in April of 1970” cannot be correct. I believe without the word “Pentium” it would be a correct statement.
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Wait, what? “Pentium microprocessor was designed in April of 1970 and completed in January of 1971, the same year when it was first made commercially available.”
The word pentium refers to the 586.intel named it that because it couldn’t get a trademark on 586. The 4004 was literally designed and completed decades before that!
Do you have editors? You need one before posting stuff like this.
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