One young scientist at Intel, Ted Hoff, thought he could make something ... That first chip was called the 4004. It was 1/8" by 1/16" with 2300 transistors etched into the silicon.

But who invented the first commercially available microprocessor? That honor goes to Intel for the 4004 ... buy a 4004 for $60 in quantities of 1 to 24. Overall, around a million were produced.

In 1987, Andy Grove unleashed the “Intel Inside” era with an expensive pivot from memory chips to microprocessors. Elsewhere in Corporate America, Alan Mulally went from leading the extremely ...