Which is first microprocessor and when it introduced also tell the latest Microprocessor?  

Intel announced world's first single chip 4bit microprocessor, the Intel 4004 in November 15, 1971. It developed by Federico Faggin and Marcian Hoff, the manager of the designing team was Leslie L. Vadász.

Answered by Smarty at 2:03 PM on May 07, 2008

Intel 4004 - The World's First Single Chip Microprocessor
In November, 1971, a company called Intel publicly introduced the world's first single chip microprocessor, the Intel 4004 (U.S. Patent #3,821,715), invented by Intel engineers Federico Faggin, Ted Hoff, and Stan Mazor. After the invention of integrated circuits revolutionized computer design, the only place to go was down -- in size that is. The Intel 4004 chip took the integrated circuit down one step further by placing all the parts that made a computer think (i.e. central processing unit, memory, input and output controls) on one small chip. Programming intelligence into inanimate objects had now become possible.
The intel centrino is the latest microprocessor.

Answered by jaivir at 10:55 PM on April 30, 2008

Well Suraj,
The first microprocessor was Intel 4004 and it was introduced in 1971.
The latest microprocessor is Intel core2duo and Intel Quad microprocessor

Answered by Bishan Preet at 7:35 PM on April 30, 2008

Intel announced world's first single chip 4bit microprocessor, the Intel 4004 in November 15, 1971. It developed by Federico Faggin and Marcian Hoff, the manager of the designing team was Leslie L. Vadász.
The intel centrino is the latest microprocessor.

Answered by Nagendra at 7:07 PM on April 30, 2008

The 4004 is the world's first microprocessor. Of course by Intel. And the latest is Intel Core 2 Duo and the Intel COre 2 Quad. Dell XPS 630 is having Quad.

Answered by Chaitanya at 5:55 PM on April 30, 2008

In November, 1971, a company called Intel publicly introduced the world's first single chip microprocessor, the Intel 4004 (U.S. Patent #3,821,715), invented by Intel engineers Federico Faggin, Ted Hoff, and Stan Mazor.

Answered by Ashish Yadav at 5:40 PM on April 30, 2008

Intel 4004 was the fist microprocessor. It was introduced in the year 1971.
Intel Centrino is the latest microprocessor.

Answered by Kamlesh B at 4:02 PM on April 30, 2008

Well Suraj , The first microprocessor was the Intel 4004, introduced in 1971.

The 4004 was not very powerful -- all it could do was add and subtract, and it could only do that 4 bits at a time. But it was amazing that everything was on one chip.

Prior to the 4004, engineers built computers either from collections of chips or from discrete components (transistors wired one at a time). The 4004 powered one of the first portable electronic calculators.

The first microprocessor to make it into a home computer was the Intel 8080, a complete 8-bit computer on one chip, introduced in 1974.

The first microprocessor to make a real splash in the market was the Intel 8088, introduced in 1979 and incorporated into the IBM PC (which first appeared around 1982). If you are familiar with the PC market and its history, you know that the PC market moved from the 8088 to the 80286 to the 80386 to the 80486 to the Pentium to the Pentium II to the Pentium III to the Pentium 4.

All of these microprocessors are made by Intel and all of them are improvements on the basic design of the 8088. The Pentium 4 can execute any piece of code that ran on the original 8088, but it does it about 5,000 times faster.

The latest microprocessor is "Pentium 4 Prescott" with 3.6 GHz and 32 bits , 64-bit bus.

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Answered by Alok Gupta at 2:08 PM on April 30, 2008

well suraj , Three projects arguably delivered a complete microprocessor at about the same time, namely Intel's 4004, the Texas Instruments (TI) TMS 1000, and Garrett AiResearch's Central Air Data Computer (CADC).

In 1968, Garrett AiResearch, with designer Ray Holt and Steve Geller, were invited to produce a digital computer to compete with electromechanical systems then under development for the main flight control computer in the US Navy's new F-14 Tomcat fighter. The design was complete by 1970, and used a MOS-based chipset as the core CPU. The design was significantly (approximately 20 times) smaller and much more reliable than the mechanical systems it competed against, and was used in all of the early Tomcat models. This system contained a "a 20-bit, pipelined, parallel multi-microprocessor". However, the system was considered so advanced that the Navy refused to allow publication of the design until 1997. For this reason the CADC, and the MP944 chipset it used, are fairly unknown even today. (see First Microprocessor Chip Set.) TI developed the 4-bit TMS 1000, and stressed pre-programmed embedded applications, introducing a version called the TMS1802NC on September 17, 1971, which implemented a calculator on a chip. The Intel chip was the 4-bit 4004, released on November 15, 1971, developed by Federico Faggin and Marcian Hoff, the manager of the designing team was Leslie L. Vadász.

TI filed for the patent on the microprocessor. Gary Boone was awarded U.S. Patent 3,757,306 for the single-chip microprocessor architecture on September 4, 1973. It may never be known which company actually had the first working microprocessor running on the lab bench. In both 1971 and 1976, Intel and TI entered into broad patent cross-licensing agreements, with Intel paying royalties to TI for the microprocessor patent. A nice history of these events is contained in court documentation from a legal dispute between Cyrix and Intel, with TI as intervenor and owner of the microprocessor patent.

Latest Microprocessor:

1). Intel Xeon X3230, 2.66 GHz X20
2).AMD Athlon™ XP 2800+, 2.8 GHz


source site:http://en.wikipedia.org/w iki/Microprocessor

Answered by Uttam at 2:02 PM on April 30, 2008