The
Intel 8008 ("
eight-thousand-eight" or "
eighty-oh-eight") is an early byte-oriented
microprocessor designed and manufactured by
Intel and introduced in April 1972. It was an 8-bit CPU with an external 14-bit address bus that could address 16KB of memory. Originally known as the
1201, the chip was commissioned by
Computer Terminal Corporation (CTC) to implement an instruction set of their design for their
Datapoint 2200 programmable terminal. As the chip was delayed and did not meet CTC's performance goals, the 2200 ended up using CTC's own
TTL based CPU instead. An agreement permitted Intel to market the chip to other customers after
Seiko expressed an interest in using it for a
calculator.