In 1958 the integrated circuit was developed by a young engineer at Texas Instruments named Jack St. Clair Kilby. He put together a few transistors and capacitors, linking them with a thin layer of ...

As NPR marks its 50th anniversary, we look back at an innovation that also changed the world in 1971: the unveiling of the first commercially produced microprocessor. NPR turned 50 this year. And to ...

The Microprocessor at 50: How the 4004 Changed The World The first general-purpose processor of the modern age came off the line today in 1971 to power a calculator. It changed the world. By Michael J ...

Thirty years ago, on June 8, 1978, Intel Corp. introduced its first 16-bit microprocessor, the 8086, with a splashy ad heralding “the dawn of a new era.” Overblown? Sure, but also prophetic. While the ...

In the US edition of EDN, my colleagues have been celebrating the fact that September 2006 marks the magazine's 50th anniversary. To mark this anniversary year, EDN 's staff have dipped into the ...

When the microprocessor and inexpensive ROM memory arrived in the early 1970s, building small, stored-program computing systems became practical. System designers learned that with the rapidly growing ...