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| x Intel i960 |
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Intel's i960 (or 80960) was a RISC-based microprocessor design that became popular during the early 1990s as an embedded microcontroller, becoming a best-selling CPU in that field, along with the competing AMD 29000. In spite of its success, Intel...
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| x Intel XScale |
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The XScale, a microprocessor core, is Marvell's (formerly Intel's) implementation of the ARMv5 architecture, and consists of several distinct families: IXP, IXC, IOP, PXA and CE (see more below). Intel sold the PXA family to Marvell Technology Group...
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| x Intel 80387 |
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The Intel 80387 (387 or i387) was a math coprocessor for the 80386 series of microprocessors, and the first Intel coprocessor to be fully compliant with the IEEE 754 standard. Released in 1987, a full two years after the 386 chip, the i387 included...
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| x Intel 80376 |
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The Intel 80376, introduced January 16, 1989, was a variant of the Intel 80386SX intended for embedded systems. It differed from the 80386 in not supporting real mode (the processor booted directly into protected mode) and having no support for...
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| x Intel 80487 |
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The Intel's i487 is a floating point unit coprocessor for Intel i486SX machines. It was essentially a full-blown i486DX chip. When installed into an i486SX system, the i487 disabled the main CPU and took over all CPU operations. In theory the...
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| x Intel 80188 |
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The Intel 80188 is a version of the Intel 80186 microprocessor with an 8 bit external data bus, instead of 16 bit. This makes it less expensive to connect to peripherals. Since the 80188 is very similar to the 80186, it had a throughput of 1 million...
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| x Intel 80186 |
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The Intel 80186 is a microprocessor and microcontroller introduced in 1982. It was based on the Intel 8086 and, like it, had a 16-bit external data bus multiplexed with a 20-bit address bus. It was also available as the Intel 80188, with an 8-bit...
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| x Intel 80486 |
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The Intel i486 (or 80486) was the first tightly pipelined x86 design. Introduced in 1989, it was also the first x86 chip to use more than a million transistors, due to a large on-chip cache and an integrated floating point unit. It represents a...
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| x Intel 80386 |
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The Intel 80386, also known as the i386, or just 386, was a 32-bit microprocessor introduced by Intel in 1985. The first versions had 275,000 transistors and were used as the central processing unit (CPU) of many personal computers and workstations....
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| x Intel 80286 |
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The Intel 80286, introduced on February 1, 1982, (originally named 80286, and also called iAPX 286 in the programmer's manual) was an x86 16-bit microprocessor with 134,000 transistors. It was the first Intel processor that could run all the...
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| x Intel 8253 |
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The Intel 8253 and 8254 are Programmable Interval Timers (PITs), which perform timing and counting functions. They are found in all x86 PCs.
In modern times, this PIT is not included as a separate chip in an x86 PC. Rather, its functionality is...
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| x Intel 8087 |
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The Intel 8087, announced in 1980, was the first floating point coprocessor for the 8086 line of processors; it had 45,000 transistors manufactured as a 3 μm depletion load HMOS circuit. (The Intel 8231 was older but designed for the Intel 8080.)...
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| x Intel 8061 |
The Intel 8061 microcontroller is most notable for its use in the Ford EEC-IV automotive engine control unit. A close relative of the 8096, the Intel 8061 is second-sourced by Toshiba (under the model number 6127) and Motorola (now Freescale...
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| x Intel 8259 |
The Intel 8259 is a family of Programmable Interrupt Controllers (PICs) designed and developed for use with the Intel 8085 and Intel 8086 8-bit and 16-bit microprocessors. The family originally consisted of the 8259, 8259A, and 8259B PICs, though a...
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| x Intel 80287 |
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The Intel 80287 (i287) was the math coprocessor for the Intel 80286 series of microprocessors. It was used to perform floating point arithmetic operations directly in hardware and normally ran at two thirds the speed of the 286 CPU. Intel (and its...
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| x Intel 80486SX |
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The Intel's i486SX was a modified Intel 486DX microprocessor with its floating-point unit (FPU) disconnected. All early 486SX chips were actually i486DX chips with a defective FPU. If testing showed that the central processing unit was working but...
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| x Intel 80386EX |
The Intel 80386EX (386EX) is a variant of the Intel 386 microprocessor designed for embedded systems. Introduced in August 1994 and was successful in the market being used aboard several orbiting satellites and microsatellites.
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| x Intel 80486DX2 |
The Intel 80486DX2 (later rebadged i486DX2) is a CPU produced by Intel that was introduced in 1992. The i486DX2 was nearly identical to the i486DX but for the addition of clock multiplier circuitry. It was the first chip to use clock doubling,...
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| x Motorola 88000 |
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Motorola | Apr 1988 |
The 88000 (m88k for short) is a RISC instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Motorola. The 88000 was Motorola's attempt at a home-grown RISC architecture, started in the 1980s. Having arrived some two years after its competition, in the form...
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| x Motorola 56000 |
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The Motorola DSP56000 (aka 56K) is a family of digital signal processor (DSP) chips produced by Motorola Semiconductor (now known as Freescale Semiconductor) starting in the 1980s and is still being produced in more advanced models in the 2000s. The...
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| x Motorola 96000 |
The Motorola 96XXX (aka 96000, 96K) is a family of digital signal processor (DSP) chips produced by Motorola. They are based on the earlier Motorola 56000 and remain software compatible with them, but have been updated to a full single-precision (32...
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| x Motorola MC14500B |
The Motorola MC14500B Industrial Control Unit (ICU) is a CMOS one-bit microprocessor designed for simple control applications. It is well-suited to the implementation of ladder logic, and thus could be used to replace relay systems and programmable...
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| x Harvard architecture |
The Harvard architecture is a computer architecture with physically separate storage and signal pathways for instructions and data. The term originated from the Harvard Mark I relay-based computer, which stored instructions on punched tape (24 bits...
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| x Intel 8052 | Intel Corporation |
The Intel 8052 was an enhanced version of the original Intel 8051 that
featured 256 bytes of internal RAM instead of 128 bytes, 8 kB of ROM
instead of 4 kB, and a third 16-bit timer.
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| x TMS34010 |
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The TMS34010 was the first programmable graphics processor integrated circuit (IC). First silicon was working at Texas Instruments (TI) in Houston in December 1985, and first shipment (a development board) was to IBM's workstation facility in...
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| x Intel 8048 |
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The Intel 8048 microcontroller (µC) (MCS-48), Intel's first microcontroller, was used in the Magnavox Odyssey² video game console, the Korg Trident series, Roland Jupiter-4 and Roland ProMars analog synthesizers, and (in its 8042 variant) in the...
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| x Reduced instruction set computer |
The acronym RISC (pronounced as risk), for reduced instruction set computer, represents a CPU design strategy emphasizing the insight that simplified instructions that "do less" may still provide for higher performance if this simplicity can be...
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| x Celeron |
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Intel Corporation |
The Celeron brand has been used by Intel for several distinct ranges of x86 CPUs targeted at budget personal computers. Celeron processors can run all IA-32 computer programs, but their performance is somewhat lower when compared to similar CPUs...
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| x PIC microcontroller |
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Microchip Technology |
PIC is a family of Harvard architecture microcontrollers made by Microchip Technology, derived from the PIC1640 originally developed by General Instrument's Microelectronics Division. The name PIC initially referred to "Programmable Interface...
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| x Arithmetic logic unit |
In computing, an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) is a digital circuit that performs arithmetic and logical operations. The ALU is a fundamental building block of the central processing unit (CPU) of a computer, and even the simplest microprocessors...
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| x EDSAC |
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University of Cambridge | May 6, 1949 |
Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) was an early British computer. The machine, having been inspired by John von Neumann's seminal First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, was constructed by Maurice Wilkes and his team at the...
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| x Ricoh 5A22 |
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The Ricoh 5A22 is a microprocessor produced by Ricoh for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) video game console. The 5A22 is based around the 16-bit CMD/GTE 65c816, itself a version of the WDC 65C816 (used in the Apple IIGS personal...
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| x Xeon |
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Intel Corporation |
The Xeon is a brand of multiprocessing- or multi-socket-capable x86 microprocessors from Intel Corporation targeted at the non-consumer server, workstation and embedded system markets.
The Xeon brand has been maintained over several generations of...
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| x Opteron |
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The Opteron is AMD's x86 server and workstation processor line, and was the first processor to implement the AMD64 instruction set architecture (known generically as x86-64). It was released on April 22, 2003 with the SledgeHammer core (K8) and was...
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| x 8-bit |
In computer architecture, 8-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are at most 8 bits (1 octet) wide. Also, 8-bit CPU and ALU architectures are those that are based on registers, address buses, or data buses of that size....
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| x Microcontroller |
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A microcontroller (also microcontroller unit, MCU or µC) is a small computer on a single integrated circuit consisting of a relatively simple CPU combined with support functions such as a crystal oscillator, timers, watchdog timer, serial and analog...
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| x Texas Instruments OMAP |
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Texas Instruments OMAP (Open Multimedia Application Platform) is a category of proprietary microprocessors that have capabilities for portable and mobile multimedia applications and are developed by Texas Instruments. Many mobile phones use OMAP...
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| x Cell Broadband Engine (CBE) microprocessor |
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Cell is a microprocessor architecture jointly developed by Sony Computer Entertainment, Toshiba, and IBM, an alliance known as "STI". The architectural design and first implementation were carried out at the STI Design Center in Austin, Texas over a...
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| x Pentium |
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Intel Corporation | Mar 22, 1993 |
The original Pentium processor was a 32-bit microprocessor produced by Intel. The first superscalar x86 architecture processor, it was introduced on March 22, 1993. Its microarchitecture (sometimes called P5) was a direct extension of the 80486...
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| x Pentium 4 |
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The Pentium 4 brand refers to Intel's line of single-core mainstream and high-end desktop and laptop central processing units (CPUs) introduced on November 20, 2000 (August 8, 2008 was the date of last shipments of Pentium 4s). They had the 7th...
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| x Pentium II |
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The Pentium II brand refers to Intel's sixth-generation microarchitecture ("Intel P6") and x86-compatible microprocessors introduced on May 7, 1997. Containing 7.5 million transistors, the Pentium II featured an improved version of the first P6...
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| x Pentium III |
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The Pentium III brand refers to Intel's 32-bit x86 desktop and mobile microprocessors based on the sixth-generation Intel P6 microarchitecture introduced on February 26, 1999. The brand's initial processors were very similar to the earlier Pentium...
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| x Pentium M |
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The Pentium M brand refers to a family of mobile single-core x86 microprocessors (with the modified Intel P6 microarchitecture) introduced in March 2003 (during the heyday of the Pentium 4 desktop CPUs), and forming a part of the Intel Centrino...
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| x Pentium Pro |
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Intel Corporation |
The Pentium Pro is a sixth-generation x86 microprocessor developed and manufactured by Intel introduced in November 1995. It introduced the P6 microarchitecture (sometime referred as i686) and was originally intended to replace the original Pentium...
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| x Pentium D |
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Intel Corporation |
The Pentium D brand refers to two series of desktop dual-core 64-bit x86 processors with the NetBurst microarchitecture manufactured by Intel. Each CPU comprised two dies, each containing a single core residing next to each other on a multi-chip...
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| x Emotion Engine |
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Toshiba | Mar 4, 2000 |
The Emotion Engine is a CPU developed and manufactured by Sony Computer Entertainment and Toshiba for use in the Sony PlayStation 2 video game console, as well as certain PlayStation 3 variants. Mass production of the Emotion Engine began in 1999....
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The R800 is the central processing unit used in the MSX Turbo-R home computer. The R800 was designed by the ASCII company of Japan, and the goals were to have the fastest CPU possible, while maintaining compatibility with old MSX Zilog Z80-based...
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| x Intel Atom |
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Intel Corporation | 2008 |
Intel Atom is the brand name for a line of ultra-low-voltage x86 and x86-64 CPUs (or microprocessors) from Intel, designed in 45 nm CMOS and used mainly in netbooks, nettops, and Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). The Atom Z series is code-named...
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| x PowerPC 970 |
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The PowerPC 970, PowerPC 970FX, PowerPC 970GX, and PowerPC 970MP, are 64-bit Power Architecture processors from IBM introduced in 2002. When used in Apple Inc. machines, they were dubbed the PowerPC G5.
The 970 family was created through a...
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| x UltraSPARC T1 |
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Sun Microsystems' UltraSPARC T1 microprocessor, known until its 14 November 2005 announcement by its development codename "Niagara", is a multithreading, multicore CPU. Designed to lower the energy consumption of server computers, the CPU typically...
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| x Athlon 64 |
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Advanced Micro Devices |
The Athlon 64 is an eighth-generation, AMD64-architecture microprocessor produced by AMD, released on September 23, 2003. It is the third processor to bear the name Athlon, and the immediate successor to the Athlon XP. The second processor (after...
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