timeline By dec 1947 First Ever RAM 1956 First ever Storage Device 1958 The first working integrated circuit was developed 1960 IBM developed the first automatic mass-production facility for transistors in New York in 1960. 1965 Gordon Moore made an observation about integrated circuits that became known as Moore's Law. 1968 Intel Corporation was founded by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore in 1968. 1969 AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) was founded on May 1, 1969. 1971 First Processor intel 4004 1972 Processor with an 8-bit architecture, 1975 The first single-chip 16-bit 1979 The Motorola 68000, a 16/32-bit processor was released and was later chosen as the processor for the Apple Macintosh and Amiga computers.