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The Intel 8008 was introduced in April, 1972.
Sun Chips were introduced in the United States in 1991 by Frito-Lay.
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The first Intel 4-bit micrprocessor, and arguably the first ever microprocessor was the the 4004, introduced in 1971.
The same way they changed computers in the 1960s when they were first introduced: computers got smaller, faster, less expensive, used less power, they could now be used in more places, by a wider variety of people, and for a wider range of applications. The same thing will continue well into the foreseeable future.microchips were introduced in the 1960smicroprocessor chips were introduced in the 1970simproved microprocessor chips were introduced in the 1980s, permitting business PCs and simple game computers for the homeimproved microprocessor chips were introduced in the 1990s, permitting powerful business PCs and practical home PCsspecialized graphics microprocessors and multi-core microprocessors were introduced after 2000, permitting offloading of highly compute intensive operations from the main CPU and permitting true multiprocessing in small affordable machines, effectively providing supercomputer like performance to the average everyday user.etc.
The Intel 4004, introduced in 1971.
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the microprocessor was first introduced on November 1971 and appeared in Electronic News . Actually, the first commercial microprocessor was the AL1 developed by Four Phase Systems. See the Description of this chip on the Computer History Museum timeline.