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First transistor was invented
John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley invent the first transistor at Bell Laboratories. -
First Integrated circuit
Developed by Robert Noyce and Jack Kilby, it was first introduced and demonstrated on September 12th of the same year. -
Moore's Law
Gordon Moore made an observation about Integrated circuits that then became known as Moore's Law. The law states that every two years the number of transistors in a microchip doubles, this law is still accurate to this day. -
Intel founded
The Intel corporation was founded by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore. Intel is now one of the leading companies in processor development, and most computers have an Intel processor in them. -
AMD founded
AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) was founded by Jerry Sanders and 7 others. -
First Microprocessor
Intel, with the help of Ted Hoff, introduced the first micrprocessor, called the intel 4004. It had 2,300 transistors, and performed 60,000 operations per second. It also had 640 bytes of memory and cost a total of $200. -
Intel 8008 processors
Intel introduced an improved version of their 4004 processor, this now contained 3,500 transistors. -
Motorola processor
The Motorola 68000 was released, it was a 16/32 bit processor that was chosen as the processor for Apple Macintosh and Amiga Computers. -
SPARC processor
SPARC (Scalable Processor Architecture) was developed by Sun Microsystems -
AM386
AMD introduced the AM386 microprocessor family. -
Intel Pentium processor
It had a clock speed of 60 MHz, 3.1 million transistors were in it and it sold for $878 at launch. -
Intel Pentium pro
This was an upgraded version of the Pentium processor that Intel introduced 2 years prior.