Microprocessor | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-02

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00:01:56 1 Structure
00:05:14 1.1 Special-purpose designs
00:06:09 1.2 Speed and power considerations
00:07:34 2 Embedded applications
00:09:38 3 History
00:13:29 3.1 First projects
00:14:10 3.1.1 Garrett AiResearch CADC (1970)
00:17:16 3.1.2 Four-Phase Systems AL1 (1969)
00:18:05 3.1.3 Pico/General Instrument
00:19:56 3.1.4 Intel 4004 (1971)
00:23:49 3.1.5 Texas Instruments TMX 1795 (1970-1971)
00:24:41 3.1.6 Texas Instruments TMS 1802NC (1971)
00:25:40 3.1.7 Gilbert Hyatt
00:26:04 3.2 8-bit designs
00:33:25 3.3 12-bit designs
00:34:17 3.4 16-bit designs
00:40:46 3.5 32-bit designs
00:50:05 3.6 64-bit designs in personal computers
00:52:33 3.7 RISC
00:54:33 3.8 Multi-core designs
01:00:27 4 Market statistics
01:02:19 5 See also



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A microprocessor is a  computer processor  that incorporates the functions of a central processing unit on a single integrated circuit (IC), or at most a few integrated circuits. The microprocessor is a multipurpose, clock driven, register based, digital integrated circuit that accepts binary data as input, processes it according to instructions stored in its memory and provides results as output. Microprocessors contain both combinational logic and sequential digital logic. Microprocessors operate on numbers and symbols represented in the binary number system.
The integration of a whole CPU onto a single or a few integrated circuits greatly reduced the cost of processing power. Integrated circuit processors are produced in large numbers by highly automated metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) fabrication processes, resulting in a low unit price. Single-chip processors increase reliability because there are many fewer electrical connections that could fail. As microprocessor designs improve, the cost of manufacturing a chip (with smaller components built on a semiconductor chip the same size) generally stays the same according to Rock's law.
Before microprocessors, small computers had been built using racks of circuit boards with many medium- and small-scale integrated circuits. Microprocessors combined this into one or a few large-scale ICs. Continued increases in microprocessor capacity have since rendered other forms of computers almost completely obsolete (see history of computing hardware), with one or more microprocessors used in everything from the smallest embedded systems and handheld devices to the largest mainframes and supercomputers.