The microprocessor is a computer processor of arithmetic, logic, and control circuitry on a single integrated circuit. The easiest way to think of a microprocessor is to take a desktop-class ...

“AheadComputing is doing the biggest, baddest CPU in the world,” said Debbie Marr, the company’s CEO. A CPU is a central processing unit, the brain inside a computer. Intel has dominated the CPU ...

Intel 4004, the first commercial microprocessor, had 2300 transistors and ran at a clock speed of 740KHz. ( CPU-Zone ) Faggin's team, which now included Shima for the duration of the design phase ...

Ars explains the Microprocessor in detail… The kind of simple arithmetic operation pictured above represents the sort of thing that we intuitively think computers do: like a pocket calculator ...

Texas Instruments' TMS 1000 first hit the market in calculators in 1974, but TI claimed it was invented in 1971, before the 4004. Moreover, TI was awarded a patent in 1973 for the microprocessor ...

The versatile, multi-function DM8000 serves as a tachometer, counter, totalizer and zero speed switch–in a space saving 1/8 ...

The story of the first microprocessor, one you may have heard, goes something like this: The Intel 4004 was introduced in late 1971, for use in a calculator.

When you construct it using a QFN-packaged microprocessor and discrete single-gate logic devices, the circuit occupies a pc-board area that's approximately as large as an aspirin. Advertisement.

A microprocessor is the brains of a computer, and they're in everything these days. Not so before 1971. FEDERICO FAGGIN: The idea that you could put an entire computer on a chip ...

The company grappled with missteps for years while developing a microprocessor code-named Sapphire Rapids. It comes out on Tuesday. Sapphire Rapids is the code name for a new Intel microprocessor ...

Researchers have developed a microprocessor built on high-performance plastic rather than silicon—and they say it could enable smarter food labels and supply chain management.