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curious.

any relevancy in modern technology?

Interestingly, the $360 quoted in the article is not that far off from a modern desktop Intel chip. For $25 today you can get an entire computer in the form of a Raspberry Pi 3 A+.

It was a cheap to manufacture chip with extremely limited capabilities. We certainly still have those, but the art has advanced to where the "extremely limited" part is not as limiting as it once was.

$360 USD in 1974 dollars is $1,892 in 2020 dollars, which will buy you a 32-core Threadripper 3970X today.

That doesn't really mean anything, other than the fact that the technology has gotten insanely cheaper. It's much more relevant to the question to compare the relative costs to modern chips. I just thought it was interesting that we could actually do this using things relatively close to the original price points in the article.

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