1970

• Gilbert Hyatt files a patent application entitled "Single Chip Integrated Circuit Computer Architecture", the first basic patent on the microprocessor.
• Information Sciences contacts Bill Gates and Paul Allen, offering them PDP-10 computer time in exchange for their programming expertise.

• (spring) Work begins at Intel on the layout of the circuit for what would be the 4004 microprocessor. Federico Faggin directs the work.

• Intel creates the first 4004 microprocessor.

• Intel creates the 1103 chip, the first generally available DRAM memory chip.

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