TMS 1000 Chip

[pcfans]

TMS 1000 JDLC

[CPUShack]

they are very nice ones, we had a big GB on them a while ago

[kaijusears]

Beautiful! I'm fortunate enough to own one too.

This mil-spec chip was the first microprocessor. The 4004 never held that title and never will.

[pcfans]

[wepwawet]

[CPUShack]

Its never ending, so I'll just say Four Phase AL-1

[kaijusears]

It's really not that hard to figure out. Check to see who holds the US patent on the microprocessor. Check the introduction date of the chips. Ask the Smithsonian institution. Just google "first microprocessor" and look at the Wikipedia article. Don't be lazy, read the whole article.

[wepwawet]

Whatever absolute truth wikipedia stands for - the question is not, which company holds a patent or whose lawyers found a definition their clients suit so they won at court.
Today's CPUs do pretty much nothing without RAM and program, such as a single 4004, AL1 or a 74181.
Most of the currently mainly agreed "first" definitions have an appendix. Such as "commercial".

Btw the AGC (which part of it, which version!?!) stated in the wiki article did not only contain three input nor gates, that just for the full truth.

Which was the first single chip ic being able to perform different tasks only depending on the program it was fed with, while the creator of that IC had no knowledge about these tasks?
(lol, just another attempt to ask the right question and not get the answer 42)

[kaijusears]

All good points wepwawet, and whatever they each are called make them both no less important mile-markers in history. They are perhaps both given way more fanfare than they deserve.

As Issac Newton said in 1676 "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants".