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Who invented the CPU?

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J. Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly, invented the EDVAC, perhaps the first computing machine with the "stored-program" architecture typical of modern CPUs.

That architecture is called the "von Neumann architecture" after John von Neumann, who write a widely distributed paper about the EDVAC.

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Intel, as a company invented the first CPU.

While it is true that the people at Intel built the first microprocessor (a CPU on a single chip), the 4004, in 1971, which was a great achievement at the time,

there were a variety of other, previous CPUs built out of a few dozen integrated circuits, a few thousand individual transistors, or a few thousand vacuum tubes.

The first commercially available computer was the 1951 Ferranti Mark 1, designed by Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn at the University of Manchester.

IBM sold about 20,000 of the refrigerator-sized IBM 1401 CPUs first introduced in 1959.
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The first public mention of 4004 was an advertisement in the November 15, 1971 edition of Electronic News,[2] though unconfirmed reports put the date of first delivery as early as March 1971. Packaged in a 16-pin ceramic dual in-line package, the 4004 was the first commercially available computer processor designed and manufactured by chip makerIntel, which had previously made semiconductor memory chips. The chief designers of the chip were Federico Faggin andTed Hoff of Intel, and Masatoshi Shima of Busicom (later of ZiLOG, founded by Faggin).

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John Vincent invented the keyboard in October 1896.

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The first computer processor was invented by Raymond M. Holt

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J. Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly, invented the EDVAC, perhaps the first computing machine with the "stored-program" architecture typical of modern CPUs.

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Charles Babbage i think

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Ray Holt

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1964 - 1971

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