Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the introduction of the Intel 4004, arguably the first microprocessor, the concept that forms the foundation of virtually all of the electronic products we use ...

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 ...

As NPR marks its 50th anniversary, we look back at an innovation that also changed the world in 1971: the unveiling of the first commercially produced microprocessor. NPR turned 50 this year. And to ...

My first CPU was the Z80 in a ZX Spectrum. I didn't learn assembler on it. Strictly Sinclair BASIC. I learned assembler on an 8086 (XT clone). Some buddies and I were working on a side scroller in ...

When the microprocessor and inexpensive ROM memory arrived in the early 1970s, building small, stored-program computing systems became practical. System designers learned that with the rapidly growing ...