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| | Microprocessor Summary |
 | | The next step was taken in 1971 with the unveiling of the Intel 4004, the first "computer on a chip."; The Intel 4004 was actually designed for use in a calculator and was intended to operate at the same speed as a 1960s-era IBM mainframe computer. |
 | | However, with the increasing power of the Intel and Motorola PC microprocessors, the computing world has tended to collapse towards personal computers and supercomputers, and even here the lines are blurred because many PCs can be networked together to form a virtual supercomputer. |
 | | Intel put this first microprocessor, the 4004, on sale late in 1971, calling it a " computer on a chip." About the size of a pencil point, the 4004 was more powerful than the original room-sized electronic computer of 1948, ENIAC. |
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