Intel 4004

And Masatoshi Shima, he did the calculator side.

So, basically with the combined effort of American, European and Asian ingenuity, the Intel 4004 launched in November of 1971.

And the Intel 4004 is often cited as the world's first microprocessor.

technically wasn't.

But it was the one that was first commercially available and it's not, you know, hush hush in a secret lab somewhere or classified for fighter jets only.

Yeah, and also, the market was kind of flooded by dozens of other, often a lot cheaper, Pong clones at that time.

So Nolan Bushnell wanted a home console that could play all of Atari's arcade games.

And he mirrored Tathoff's idea when he invented the Intel 4004, the first commercial microprocessor that we talked about before.