Thursday 15 August 2013
Tutorial on the History of Microprocessor
Last time we discuses a topic on how
computer work today we shall look into a full detail tutorial on how processor
work as a vital part of the machine we are using every day of our life which is
computer. A Must Read Article: How computer work
The computer you are using to read
this page uses a microprocessor to
perform or do it works. The microprocessor as we said earlier is the heart of
any computer whether desktop computer or laptop PC. The microprocessor you are
using might be a Pentium, a k6, a power PC, a space or any other brand type or
processor we have, but they all do the same thing.
A microprocessor also called Central
Processing Unit CPU is a complete computation engine that is fabricated on
single chips. The first microprocessor Intel 4004 was manufacture by Intel Corporation
which was launch on 1972, the Intel 4004 was not powerful as at then, all it
could do was to add and subtract, and it execute such operation a bit by bit at
a time. Prior to the Intel 4004, engineers built computers either from
collection of chips or from discrete components, that is from transistor wired
one at a time. The first Intel 4004 was the one of the first portable
calculator.
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| Intel 8080 Microprocessor |
The first microprocessor to make to
be available in the computer market space was a processor from Intel and it
called Intel 8080, this Intel 8080 was a full 8-bit computer system that is
build on one chip, introduced and launch in 1974 by Intel Corporation. This First
Processor was initially produced for IBM PC (which first appeared around 1982).
If you are familiar with the PC market and its history, you know that the PC
market moved from the 8088 to the 80286 to the 80386 to the 80486 to the
Pentium to the Pentium II to the Pentium III to the Pentium 4. All of these
microprocessors are Design and Manufacture by Intel Corporation and all of them
are improvements on the basic design of the 8088. The Pentium 4 can execute any
piece of code that ran on the original 8088, but it does it about 5,000 times
faster!
Since 2004, Intel has introduced
microprocessors with multiple cores and millions more transistors. But even
these microprocessors follow the same general rules as earlier chips Technology.
the Above simple tutorial is what shows a small history of microprocessor and how it has dominate the computer market till the present day. our next post shall be on the core function and mechanism of processor so keep a date with us.
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