The first programmable microprocessor — the Intel® 4004 — made its debut in 1971 in a business calculator. Since then, multiple generations of Intel microprocessors have gone on to be the brains in a variety of everyday products, from gas pumps and traffic light controllers to some of history’s most profound moments, like the Apollo space missions and medical research into the human genome.
It would take up to one million original Intel 4004 chips to provide the effortless computing power we have all come to expect from today’s Ultrabook. By our calculation, that would make today’s laptop measure roughly 23 feet by 10 feet, and it would consume 4,000 times more energy than a moden laptop and cost about $150,000 a year to power. Cheers to progress!
The dramatic evolution of computing over the past few decades has unleashed wave after wave of innovation. Yet, Intel believes we are still at the very early stages in the evolution of computing. Fueled by the relentless advancement of Moore’s Law, the pace of technological innovation is, in fact, accelerating. Intel believes the sheer number of advances in the next 40 years will equal all of the innovative activity that has taken place over the last 10,000 years of human history. Intel envisions billions of connected people, and trillions of connected electronic and electromechanical devices, creating the so-called “Internet of things”. Today, technology is no longer the limiting factor. We are limited only by our own imagination, so the really important question is, “What do you want from the future of computing?”
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