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Computer · True or False?

Microsoft designed the first CPU

The answer is False.

Explanation

The first single-chip microprocessor (a CPU on a single chip) was the Intel 4004, released in 1971 and designed by Intel, originally for a Japanese calculator company, Busicom. Microsoft was founded 4 years later, in 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.

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