Initially designed for a Japanese calculator called the Busicom 141-PF, the 4-bit 4004 found limited use in commercial ...

Well, if you think your computer has a sluggish startup time, how about waiting the best part of a week for the machine to ...

An incredibly dedicated and talented enthusiast has managed to boot Linux on a 4-bit microprocessor meant for pocket ...

Programmer and hardware enthusiast Dmitry Grinberg has shared a video in which he boots and runs commands on an Intel ...

Dmitry Grinberg is reasonably well-known in the hacking community. He designed the firmware for this year's uber-cool DefCon 32 attendee badges that featured a Game Boy ...

The 4-bit Intel 4004 from 1971 predates the modern PC and the x86 CPU, but that doesn't mean it can be used to run Linux...

Takes nearly five days to boot Dmitry Grinberg has achieved the remarkable feat of running a 33-year-old flavour of Linux on ...

But who invented the first commercially available microprocessor? That honor goes to Intel for the 4004. We pick up the tale with Robert Noyce, who had co-invented the IC while at Fairchild ...

This is quite a bit bigger than the original 12mm² die. The Intel 4004 was among the first microprocessors and one of the first to use the MOS silicon-gate technology. In the decades long race to ...

The first microprocessor. Designed by Marcian E. "Ted" Hoff at Intel in 1971, the 4004 was a 4-bit, general-purpose CPU initially developed for the Japanese Busicom calculator. Running at a clock ...