Microprocessors
Intel 4004
First commercial microprocessor on a single chip
4-bit architecture2,300 transistors740 kHz clock speedFirst commercial microprocessor10-micron process
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1971
1979
Microprocessors
Motorola 68000
32-bit processor used in early Macintosh and workstations
32-bit internal architecture16-bit data bus16 MB address spaceCISC instruction setUsed in Macintosh and Amiga
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1993
Microprocessors
Intel Pentium
Fifth-generation x86 processor with superscalar architecture
Superscalar architectureDual integer pipelines64-bit data bus3.1 million transistorsSeparate code and data caches
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