Tech Story #7: The first microprocessor — Intel 4004

One tiny chip started every computer you own. 💾⚡

📅 1969: Busicom, a calculator company from Japan, asks Intel for chips.
🧩 Their plan needed 12 different custom chips. Too many!
💡 Intel's idea: put the whole brain on ONE chip that runs a program.
🔬 The Intel 4004 (sold from November 1971): about 2,300 transistors, 4-bit, 740 kHz.
👥 Federico Faggin, Ted Hoff, Stanley Mazor and Masatoshi Shima made it happen.
📱 Today's phone chips? Billions of transistors.