Intel‘s first processor, 4004 turns 40

Intel’s first microprocessor, the 4004, turned 40 yesterday. As Intel likes to put it, they are the brains inside the computers, phones, servers and every bit of electronics that we use. Intel’s been chasing the Moore’s law, since then. The law suggests doubling the number of transistors in semiconductors every two years. Intel says that the new Sandy Bridge line of processors are more than 350,000 times more powerful than the first Intel 4004 processor. Cost of transistors has dropped massively and so has the energy reqiurement per transistor, thus making processors way more efficient than they used to be. Click here for full story