To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Intel 8080 processor, the Intel Museum in Santa Clara, California, features an exhibit that includes functional 8080 devices alongside their modern ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. If the introduction of the Intel 8008 led to a variety of ...

This is a collection of thirteen manauls for Intel products indexed from a to m. They include: a. Intel 8080 Microcomputer Systems User's Manual, July, 1975. b. MCS-8 Micro Computer Set, 8008 8 Bit ...

The early history of microprocessors is a surprisingly complex one, with more than one claimant for the prize of being the first, and multiple competing families. That the first commercially available ...

It came out in 1974 and was the basis of the MITS Altair 8800, for which two guys named Bill Gates and Paul Allen wrote BASIC, and millions of people began to realize that they, too, could have their ...

The fifth in our Friday weekly series on the invention of the microprocessor is an account of how, after getting the world’s first microprocessor, the 4004, into silicon, Dr Federico Faggin set about ...

The sixth in our Friday weekly series on the early microprocessors, is told by Masatoshi Shima, designer of the breakthrough microprocessor, the 8080. “With the 8080, Intel wanted to develop a second ...

“The 4004 and 8008 suggested it, but the 8080 made it real,” said Federico Faggin, Intel’s lead designer for the 8080 and its predecessor processors, the 4004 and 8008. Prior to the 8080’s launch in ...

The Intel 8080 didn’t revolutionise microprocessors – it created the microprocessor market. “The 4004 and 8008 suggested it, but the 8080 made it real,” says Federico Faggin, Intel’s lead designer for ...