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TBH it all depends on how you define an "IC CPU". The MP944 needed several support chips to actually be a computer, but then so did the 4004 and the Four Phase
by voidUpdate 2y ago
TBH it all depends on how you define an "IC CPU". The MP944 needed several support chips to actually be a computer, but then so did the 4004 and the Four Phase Systems AL1. I can recommend a good video by Alexander the OK on youtube (https://youtu.be/YpruA5mC7wg https://youtu.be/YpruA5mC7wg) that goes into a lot of detail about the MP944 and its contemporaries (which I feel like OP has watched too)
- quantified 2y agoWithin the article: > The first microprocessor existing on a single chip was the contemporary Intel 4004. CPUs made from multiple chips had been around already, I believe.