You can actually go see blown-up individual mask traces (how they made the chip) for at least some of the layers at the Intel Museum in Santa Clara.

edit (some more info): http://intel4004.com/current_intel_museum.htm

The watermark is really obnoxious. Did they really have to plaster it all over the image?

It's cool how "intel" (bottom right) and "FF" [1] (top right) is signed using the same process as the rest of the chip :D

[1] initials of Federico Faggin

haha that looks like a screenshot of a factorio game play

Why a pity? Seems to have been the start of a good run for Intel.

The 4004 could have performed much better than it did (up to 3x faster) if intel hadn't insisted on the 16 pin DIP. This limited how much data could be accessed per cycle and relied on shift registers etc to get full instructions and memory.

Yes, I remember Federico Faggin saying he was frustrated at Intel's policy on the number of pins.

The whole exercise does seem like Faggin, Shima and Mazor trying to produce the chip with little help from the rest of Intel.

I think given the target market though the speed wasn't a major issue and they soon rectified the mistake

So this explains where Intel is now - they've been putting corporate politics above reason from the very beginning.