History of the

Microprocessor
Stephanie Usseglio
Justin Gawrych
TJ Phelan
November 28, 2006

History of the
Microprocessor
In the year 1969 the
microprocessor was called the Micro
computer chip and this was named
by Busicom. The term
microprocessor was developed until
1972.

Microprocessor
defined in Webster
Integrated circuit that contains the entire
central processing unit of a computer on
a single chip.
Another Source
Microprocessor is a device that integrates
the functions of the CPU in a computer
onto the LC or semiconductor chip.

Essentials
Microprocessors contain core
essentials
of a computer system.

Memory unit
ALU
Control unit
Interrupt / Exception controller

Internal cache

Essentials
The memory unit and interforce enables the microprocessor to
sustain a two-way communication with semiconductor, and
chips that stores the program and data.
This supports memory, writes and reads blocks of
wards.
The internal cache is a memory chip- stores and holds recently
used information and data.
Which will be used in the future.
The interrupt and exception controller enables the
microprocessor.
Takes action to the external environment.
The control unit operates the outer units and fetches
instructions from a chip cache and execute them.

History of the
Microprocessor
The integrated circuit also known as the (IC) was
invented in 1958 by a man known as Jack S. Kilby.
Kilby worked for Texas instruments . While Kilby was
working for TI he was designing micro modules for
the military, these micro modules connected
germanium wafers to discreet components
collectively by stacking the wafers one on top of
another. While Kilby was working on the modules he
thought this procedure was ridiculous and
unnecessarily complicated and thought the
germanium was engineered properly and it could act
as components to stimuli . This is when the first IC
was born.

History of the
Microprocessor
Intel
In the year 1969, 4004 instruction set had been
defined as a computer terminal corporation, also
known as the (CTC). This processor asked Intel to
develop an LSI chip for the new and intelligent
terminals that were being developed.
Hoff and a man by the name of Stan Mazor put
the whole processor on one chip. The MCS-4 was
made in April of 1972. This CPU chip launched and
became the furthermost success yet.

History of the
Microprocessor
Intel
Intel 8080 was developed in April of 1972. It was not
available to customers at this time because of the
design chip into the products and wasnt ready. The
8080 processor had over 4,500 transtors and this
number was doubled in the 4004 which was addressed
to 64 Kbytes (memory). The speed was down because
of the use of electron doped technology in assessment
to hole doped MOS transistors.
In 1978 Intel produced the first ever 16 bit processor
the
8086 it was well-matched with the 8080, the 8086 was
the most effective processor thus far.

History of the
Microprocessor
Competitors and the early years
Even though Intel invented the microprocessor and had
the company grow from a 3 employee workshop to a
20,000 Employee Company didnt mean they were the only
ones developing the microprocessor. In July of 1974- 19
Microprocessors were available, over the next few years the
number increased rapidly. In 1976 it became 54.
The second processor was available late in the year of
1972 developed by Rockwell. In 1974 Texas Instrument
came out with the TMS1000 which was the first
microprocessor to contain its very own RAM and ROM on
chip.

History of the
Microprocessor
Competitors and the early years
The success of the Intel 808 Zilog and Motorola, made the
two produce competing chips. Motorola produced the 6800
which was very group orientated hardware and as popular
as the chip had seemed to be it, it fell through
underdeveloped which was designed by a group of
engineers that had left Intel previously.
These two men were Fredrico Faggin and Masatoshi Shima
who had previously designed the 8080 and 4004 for Intel.
After Motorola introduced the first 16 bit processor they
came out with a 68000 chip that addressed 16 megabytes
and was competent to act like a 32 bit processor. They were
and are found in Amga and, Macintosh computers.

History of the
Microprocessor
Competitors and the early years
Intels very first microprocessor contained so much
processing power that it was considered the most
powerful computer in the world at the time. This computer
microprocessor was the ENIAC and it filled an entire room.
Intel released the i386 processor in the 1990s. This
microprocessor was the first commercially available 32-bit
processor. The i386 was made to multitask by running more
then one program at a time mainly on a desktop computer.
The Intel Pentium processor was released in 1993 making it
the first available microprocessor capable of executing two
instructions for every clock cycle. Intels serious competitor
today is the AMD (Advanced Micro Devices).

History of the
Microprocessor
The microprocessor came about when the size of the
central processing unit reduced from 32 bits to 4,
making it sufficient for it to fit into the IC. When more
then one microprocessor serves as a processing unit,
it is then called a CPU, which is frequent in a
handheld device or computer. The evolution of the
microprocessor has been said to have followed
Moores Law, increasing performances every year.
This has been proven since the 1970s. Power is
continuously increased, which has led to the
ascendancy of microprocessors, over every computer.
Mainly everything in days world uses a
Microprocessor.

History of the
Microprocessor
16 bit design
The very first multi-chip was a 16 bit microprocessor was TIs
TMS 9900 and was similar in temperament with TIs TI990
minicomputers. This chip was packaged in ceramic 64 pin DIP
packages, and was designed to battle with the Intel 8080. The
WDC (Western Design Center, Inc introduced the CMOS 65816 16
bit which was an upgrade of the WDC CMOS 65C02. This was
developed in 1984 and was the core of the Apple IIgs, and later on
Super Nintendo System. This made it a very admired design.
The very first single chip was a 32 bit processor that was the
AT&T Bell Labs BELLMAC 32A, this came about in 1980 and was
produced in 1982. The most famous 32 bit design is the MC6800
made in 1979. The 68K had 32 bit registers and only used 16 bit
internal paths and 16 external for pin count. It was very high
speed and large.

History of the
Microprocessor
RISC
In the 1980s and 1990s RISC (Reduced
Instruction Set Computer) made its
appearance. It was made for Unix
workstations and purpose machines, but
today are widespread in all roles set aside
desktop computers. RISC today designs
are based on MIPS, PowerPC and ARM for
majority of computing devices

History of the
Microprocessor
Facts
44 Billion dollars worth of Microprocessors were
made in 2003 as well as sold. Most was spent on
laptop and or desktop computers it takes about 0.2
% of the CPUs sold.
Almost 56% of CPUs sold are 8 bit microcontrollers.
Less the 10 % of CPUs sold are 32 bit or more. Most
are sold in house hold appliances such as vacuums,
TVs, Microwaves, toasters and so forth.

History of the
Microprocessor

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