The first microprocessor was developed by what was then a small company called Intel (short for Integrated Electronics) in the early 1970s. The chipset was a success and within a short while Intel developed a general purpose 4 bit microprocessor called the 4004.
In 1974 the more powerful second generation microprocessor (the 8008) was announced fabricated as a single chip. This was quickly followed by the Intel 8080.
At about the same time Motorola released its first microprocessor, the 6800, which was also an 8 bit processor with about the same processing power as that of the Intel 8080.
The architectures used in the Intel 8080 and the Motorola 6800 were very different.