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:

1. Intel 8080, 8085, Zilog Z80
2. 8086, 8088, 80186, 80286, 80386, 80486, x86
3. K5[?], K6, K6-2[?], Duron, Athlon, Opteron
4. Pentium, Pentium Pro, Celeron, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4
5. Itanium
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
15. Atmel AVR architecture
16. OpenCores[?] OpenRISC[?] architecture
17. CDP1802

• CPU design
• Computer architecture
• List of Intel microprocessors, x86
• Microcontroller

Links:

• Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present (http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/jbayko/cpu.html)
• CPU Info Center (http://bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/CIC/)