In 1958 the integrated circuit was developed by a young engineer at Texas Instruments named Jack St. Clair Kilby. He put together a few transistors and capacitors, linking them with a thin layer of ...

Intel Corporation remains central to semiconductor innovation, appearing prominently within Nasdaq Composite discussions.

The first commercial microprocessor, Intel's 4004, debuted in 1971 with 2,300 transistors, a 108-kHz system clock and a 4-bit bus. Since then, chip architects have increased the computational ...

The first commercial microprocessor was the Intel 4004, which was introduced in 1971. This device had a 4-bit CPU with a 4-bit data bus and a 12-bit address bus (the data and address buses were ...