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Microprocessor
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:
- Intel 8080, 8085, Zilog Z80
- 8086, 8088, 80186, 80286, 80386, 80486, x86
- K5[?], K6, K6-2[?], Duron, Athlon, Opteron
- Pentium, Pentium Pro, Celeron, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4
- Itanium
- Motorola 6800, Motorola 6809, MOS Technologies 650x
- 68000 family, 88000, ColdFire[?]
- 320xx microprocessor
- Transputer
- PowerPC family - G4
- PA-RISC family
- ARM family, StrongARM
- DEC Alpha
- MIPS architecture
- Atmel AVR architecture
- OpenCores[?] OpenRISC[?] architecture
- CDP1802
Links:
- Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present (http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/jbayko/cpu)
- CPU Info Center (http://bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/CIC/)
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