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The Intel 4004 is an early single chip computer chip, from 1971, and a lineal ancestor of the Pentium family of computer chips.^[1]

**intel 4004 specifications**^[1]
specification	value
number of transistors	2,300 transistor on die
clock speed	740 hertz
instruction set	46 instructions
Registers	16 4 bit registers or eight bit registers.
introduction date	1971
memory	1k data memory, 4k program memory
address space	4k

The computer had separate data and memory spaces. The maximum addressable memory was 4 kilobytes.^[1]

According to the History of Computing website the chip "it is widely considered to be the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor."^[1]

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