The Tomcat was the first aircraft to use a microprocessor-driven flight system, as well as the first microprocessor unit (MPU) ever demonstrated, beating the Intel 4004 by a year. In 1971 ...

There is some dispute as to which company invented the microprocessor, and we’ll talk about that further down. But who invented the first commercially available microprocessor? That honor goes ...

He applied for a patent on this microprocessor in 1970. The following year, while his paper work wended its way through the patent office, three engineers from Intel Corporation created the first ...

Semiconductor giant Intel is set to release its first 4GHz microprocessor "within weeks". The new part will potentially kick-start the so-called "gigahertz wars", the competition between Intel and ...

China’s chip industry has reached a major milestone after scientists developed the world’s most complex semiconductor microprocessor.

Introduction The ARM® Cortex™-A8 microprocessor is the first applications microprocessor in ARM’s new Cortex family. With high performance and power efficiency, it targets a wide variety of mobile and ...