15th November 1971
Intel launches the 4004, the first microprocessor

The Intel 4004 was the world's first commercially available microprocessor. It was a single chip containing a complete general-purpose 4-bit CPU.

Intel launched the 4004 with an advert in the November 15th issue of Electronic News.

Related information:

• Elektor Magazine: The Birth of the Microprocessor - The Intel 4004
• Intel: Intel's First Microprocessor

Images:

• Advert from the November 15th, 1971 issue of Electronic News
  Credit: Intel Free Press, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
• Intel 4004 processor (open), manufactured by the Intel Corporation, United States, 1971.
  Credit: Science Museum, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons