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4004 was released on
November 15,
1971.[2]
Packaged in a 16-pin ceramic dual in-line package, the 4004 was the first commercially available computer processor designed and manufactured by chip maker
Intel, which had previously made semiconductor memory chips. The chief designers of the chip were
Federico Faggin and Ted
Hoff of Intel, and
Masatoshi Shima of Busicom (later of ZiLOG, founded by Faggin).
Faggin, the sole chip designer among the engineers on the MCS-4 project, was the only one with experience in
MOS random logic and circuit design. He also had the crucial knowledge of the new silicon gate process technology with self-aligned gates, which he had created at
Fairchild in
1968. At Fairchild in 1968, Faggin also designed and manufactured the world's first commercial IC using
SGT — the Fairchild 3708. As soon as he joined the Intel MOS
Department he created a new random design methodology based on silicon gate, and contributed many technology and circuit design inventions that enabled a single chip microprocessor to become a reality for the first time. His methodology set the design style for all the early
Intel microprocessors and later for the Zilog's
Z80. He also led the MCS-4 project and was responsible for its successful outcome (1970-1971). Ted Hoff, head of the
Application Research Department, contributed only the architectural proposal for Busicom working with
Stan Mazor in
1969, then he moved on to other projects.
Shima designed the Busicom calculator firmware and assisted Faggin during the first six months of the implementation. The manager of Intel's MOS
Design Department was
Leslie L. Vadász.[3] At the time of the MCS-4 development,
Vadasz's attention was completely focused on the mainstream business of semiconductor memories and he left the leadership and the management of the MCS-4 project to Faggin.
The
Japanese company Busicom had designed their own special purpose
LSI chipset for use in their Busicom 141-PF calculator with integrated printer and commissioned Intel to develop it for production. However, Intel determined it was too complex and would use non-standard packaging and so it was proposed that a new design produced with standard 16-pin
DIP packaging and reduced instruction set be developed.[4] This resulted in the 4004, which was part of a family chips, including
ROM,
DRAM and serial to parallel shift register chips. The 4004 was built of approximately 2,
300 transistors and was followed the next year by the first ever 8-bit microprocessor, the 2,
500 transistor
8008 (and the 4040, a revised 4004). It was not until the development of the 40-pin
8080 in
1974 that the address and data buses would be separated, giving faster and simpler access to memory.
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