developments of processors By Dion.Wampamba@stu.shc.ac.uk 1823 silicon was discovered 1903 patented electrical logic circuits called "gates" or "switches" 1947 invented the first transistor 1948 patented the first transistor 1958 he first working IC (Integrated Circuit) was developed 1960 the the development of first automatic mass-production facility for transistors 1965 Gordon Moore made an observation about integrated circuits that became known as Moore's Law 1968 Intel Corporation was founded 1969 AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) was founded 1971 the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004 was introduced 1972 Intel introduced the 8008 processor 1975 The MOS (Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) Technology 6502 processor was introduced 1977 apple was founded 1979 The Motorola 68000, a 16/32-bit processor, was released 1982 National Semiconductor released the 32016 processor, the first 32-bit general use processor 1990 ARM Holdings was founded 1991 AMD introduced the AM386 microprocessor family 1993 NVIDIA was founded 1995 Intel introduced the Intel Pentium Pro