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Microprocessor

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A microprocessor is an electronic computer that is made from many transistors on one or more semiconductor integrated circuits.

The microprocessor was invented by Marcian Ted Hoff in 1971 when he was working for the Intel company.

See also:

  1. Intel 8080, Zilog Z80
  2. 8085
  3. 8086,8088,80186,80286,80386,80486,x86,Intel
  4. K5,K6,K6-2,Athlon,ClawHammer,SledgeHammer,Opteron,x86-64,AMD
  5. Pentium family,Itanium or Itanic
  6. Motorola 6800, Motorola 6809, MOS Technologies 650x
  7. 68000 family,88000,ColdFire
  8. 320xx microprocessor
  9. Transputer
  10. PowerPC family - G4
  11. PA-RISC family
  12. ARM family, StrongARM
  13. DEC Alpha
  14. MIPS architecture


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