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He began to consider whether a truly general-purpose processor could be made cheaply enough to be used in a calculator. [9] When later asked where he got the ideas for the architecture of the first microprocessor, Hoff related that Plessey , "a British tractor company", [ 10 ] had donated a minicomputer to Stanford , and he had "played with it ...
The first chips that could be considered microprocessors were designed and manufactured in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including the MP944 used in the Grumman F-14 CADC. [1] Intel's 4004 of 1971 is widely regarded as the first commercial microprocessor. [2]
While there is disagreement over who invented the microprocessor, [2] [14] the first commercially available microprocessor was the Intel 4004, released as a single MOS LSI chip in 1971. [15] The single-chip microprocessor was made possible with the development of MOS silicon-gate technology (SGT). [ 16 ]
Hitachi introduces SuperH architecture, [8] which provides the basis for ARM's Thumb instruction set. [9] 1993. Intel launches the original Pentium microprocessor, the first processor with a x86 superscalar microarchitecture. 1994. IBM introduce the first IBM mainframe models to use single-chip microprocessors as CPUs, the IBM System/390 9672 ...
He was awarded the IEEE Medal of Honor in 1978 "for his contributions to the silicon integrated circuit, a cornerstone of modern electronics." [44] [45] In 1979, he was awarded the National Medal of Science. He also received Faraday Medal in 1979. Noyce was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1980. [46]
The birth of modern computing was in the 1970s. The world's first general microprocessor , the Intel 4004 , came out in November 1971. The C programming language was developed early in the decade and the Unix operating system was rewritten into it in 1973.
Donald Davies independently invents packet switching used in modern computer networking. [21] [17] Davies conceived of and named the concept for data communication in 1965 and 1966. [22] [23] Many packet-switched networks built in the 1970s, including the ARPANET, were similar "in nearly all respects" to his original 1965 design. [24] 1965: US
Bill Mensch did the 6502; he was the designer of the 6820 Peripheral Interface Adapter (PIA) at Motorola. Harry Bawcom, Mike Janes and Sydney-Anne Holt helped with the layout. MOS Technology's microprocessor introduction was different from the traditional months-long product launch.