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The first commercial product to use a microprocessor was the Busicom calculator 141-PF.
According to Nick Tredennick, a microprocessor designer and expert witness to the Boone/Hyatt patent case:
Here are my opinions from study . The first microprocessor in a commercial product was the Four Phase Systems AL1. The first commercially available (sold as a component) microprocessor was the 4004 from Intel. —A popular myth has it that Pioneer 10, the first spacecraft to leave the solar system, used an Intel 4004 microprocessor. According to Dr. Larry Lasher of Ames Research Center, the Pioneer team did evaluate the 4004, but decided it was too new at the time to include in any of the Pioneer projects. The myth was repeated by Federico Faggin himself in a lecture for the Computer History Museum in 2006.
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