This listing is for a high quality archival fine art print of a historic vintage Intel 4004 CPU silicon wafer composite integrated circuit mask engineering diagram. Wonderful engineering diagram of the world's first central processing unit (CPU) from the beginning of semiconductor manufacturing in Silicon Valley in 1971.
Print size: 20"x14½" on 22"x17" paper
Title:
Intel 4004 CPU Integrated Circuit Mask
Date Created/Published: San Jose, Ca 1971
Medium: Archival pigment ink on 325g/m2 21mil acid free fine art
paper
Artist: Stephen Charles
This print is limited to 155 numbered prints and has the print number, artist signature and title written on the back. An Orchard Arts certificate of authenticity is included.
At Orchard Arts we have over 10 years experience doing museum quality restorations of negatives and prints. We use only the highest quality archival materials. Prints are shipped in a tube and protected in a polypropylene bag.
The Intel 4004
The 4004 is the world's first microprocessor, is signed with the initials F.F., for Federico Faggin, its designer. The Intel 4004 is a 4-bit central processing unit (CPU) released by Intel Corporation in 1971. It was the first commercially available microprocessor by Intel. The chip design started in April 1970, when Federico Faggin joined Intel, and it was completed under his leadership in January 1971. The 4004 was history’s first monolithic CPU, fully integrated in one small chip. The 4004 microprocessor was one of 4 chips constituting the MCS-4 chip-set, which included the 4001 ROM, 4002 RAM, and 4003 Shift Register. With these components, small computers with varying amounts of memory and I/O facilities could be built.