33 years ago.. perhaps no one would have imagined that a device basically designed for an Electronic Calculator would revolutionize the human lives and would become a cause for the origin of Internet. 
All this happened.. when Intel came out with its first microprocessor in 1971.  

The journey of Microprocessors was....
 

• This is the first microprocessor.

• Seed to Personal Computers- designed by Intel corporation.

• Basically designed not for computers but for a Japanese Buzicom calculator

• Twice the power of 4004 microprocessor.

• House-hold computer "Mark-8" used this 8 bit microprocessor.

• The heart of the first personal computer 'Altair'.

• The destination for the 'star ship-1' in a popular television serial "Star Trek" was also named "Altair".

• The heart of the IBM PC's.

• 8088's demand for the early personal computers was tremendous and that placed Intel into Fortune-500 companies.

• also called 80286.

• First microprocessor with embedded software

• It is estimated that approximately 1.5 crore microprocessors were sold in a spam of  6 years.

• Number of transistors were 100 times more than that of the first microprocessor.

• Multiprocessing and first 32 bit  processor being its specialty.

• The first microprocessor to replace hand-held instructions to a 'mouse'.

• a new co-processor was designed into it to exclusively take care of mathematical operations which also reduced load on CPU and resulted in increased speed.

• Intel's first Multimedia support microprocessor.

• Designed exclusively for Bit servers and Workstations..

• Computer aided designing, Mechanical engineering, Scientific calculations were made easy with the advent of this chip.

• Enhanced Multimedia support with Introduction of Intel's MMX technology.

• Designed for servers.

• Enhanced multimedia support.

• Educational, medium-end software and gaming support.

• All these at relatively low price, being its major success.

• This chip was later(2000-04) developed in clock speed and other features and was released in various versions to compete with its major competitors P-III & P-IIII for personal computers.

• Relatively (compared with P-III/ P-IIII) less cache memory being main reason behind its low price

• Able to explore all the features of Internet to normal users.

• Internet streaming, SMID extension like 70 new instructions were added into this microprocessor.

• Created a sense of " Virtual Reality" for the first time.

• Most popular chip today.

• Compatibility with latest and evolving technologies. (example: H.T. tech. etc.).

• Support for Real time Video, 3D graphics with enhanced multimedia support.

• High capacity Workstations supported microprocessor.

• Works on more than one microprocessor.

• Prepared with a new design technology 'Intel Net Buster'.

• Intel's first 64 bit microprocessor.

• Prepared with a new design technology 'Intel Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing'

• It is being used for E-commerce, Security Transactions and Advanced Scientific and Engineering works.

• Enhanced Intel Itanium microprocessor.

• A processor aptly compatible with Laptop and Wireless Technologies.