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Plate Nº 012 · First edition
Intel 4004
4-bit central processor unit · 1971
Price to be set
The real thing
This one exists. Here are the facts.
- Part
- 4-bit central processor unit
- Transistors
- 2,300
- Process
- 10 µm pMOS silicon-gate
- Introduced
- 15 November 1971
- Primary source
- CC0 photograph of the 1971 chip layout, Wikimedia Commons
- Printing
- Made to order, one at a time
Why I made this series
Before it was in your pocket, it was a drawing filed in an office. These are the actual sheets and layouts, the moment an idea became a thing with a number on it. I redrew them so you can hang the birth certificate of a machine.
