Modern Era · North America · Technology
1971
Intel 4004 microprocessor released
November 15, 1971
Intel announced the 4004, the first commercially available microprocessor, a chip the size of a fingernail containing the core of a computer. It had been designed to run a Japanese calculator. Its descendants would power personal computers, phones, cars, and almost everything else in the coming digital age. The chip era had begun.
In context
Also in 1971 (4 other events on record)
- Bangladesh Liberation War · South Asia · War
- Nixon ends gold standard · North America · Politics
- PRC takes China's UN seat · East Asia · Politics
- Greenpeace founded · North America · Politics
Before and after in North America
Before and after in Technology
- Before: 1969: Jumbo jet era begins
- After: 1972: Pong arrives in bars
Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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