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 ...

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The first microprocessor. Designed by Marcian E. "Ted" Hoff at Intel in 1971, the 4004 was a 4-bit, general-purpose CPU initially developed for the Japanese Busicom calculator. Running at a clock ...

1972: Gary Kildall writes PL/M, the first high-level programming language for the Intel microprocessor. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are building and selling "blue boxes" in Southern California in ...

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 ...