Thursday, 19 September 2013

CPU's - brief review

CPU's - brief review
CPU history starts in 1971, when a small unknown company, Intel, for the first time combined
multiple transistors to form a central processing unit - a chip called Intel 4004. However, it was
8 years before the first PC was constructed.
PC's are designed around different CPU generations. Intel is not the only company
manufacturing CPU's, but by far the leader one. The following table shows the different CPU
generations. They are predominantly Intel chips, but in the 5th generation we see alternatives:

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