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The Intel 4004 is an early single chip computer chip, from 1971, and a lineal ancestor of the Pentium family of computer chips.^[1]

**intel 8080 specifications**^[1]
specification	value
number of transistors	2,300 transistor on die
clock speed	740 hertz
instruction set	46 instructions
Registers	16 4 bit registers or eight bit registers.
introduction date	1971
memory	1k data memory, 4k program memory

The computer had separate data and memory spaces. The maximum addressable memory was 4 kilobytes.^[1]

According to the History of Computing website the chip "it is widely considered to be the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor."^[1]

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-The '''Intel 4004''' is an early [[single chip computer chip]], from the 1970s, and a lineal ancestor of the [[Pentium family of computers]].
+The '''Intel 4004''' is an early [[single chip computer chip]], from 1971, and a lineal ancestor of the [[Pentium family of computer chips]].<ref name=thocp1974-75>
+{{cite news
+| url=http://www.thocp.net/timeline/1974.htm
+| title=The Industrial Era: 1974 - 1975
+| page=
+| pages=
+| publisher=[[History of Computing]]
+| author=
+| date=
+| accessdate=2008-04-15
+| quote=
+}}</ref>
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+ '''intel 8080 specifications'''<ref name=thocp1974-75/>
+|-
+! '''specification''' !! '''value'''
+|-
+| '''number of transistors''' || 2,300 transistor on die
+|-
+| '''clock speed''' || 740 [[hertz]]
+|-
+| '''instruction set''' || 46 instructions
+|-
+| '''Registers''' || 16 4 bit registers or eight bit registers.
+|-
+| '''introduction date''' || 1971
+|-
+| '''memory''' || 1k data memory, 4k program memory
+|}
+The computer had separate data and memory spaces.
+The maximum addressable memory was 4 kilobytes.<ref name=thocp1974-75/>
+According to the [[History of Computing]] website the chip ''"it is widely considered to be the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor."''<ref name=thocp1974-75/>
+==References==
+<references/>