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40 years of microprocessor development
theinquirer.net ^ | Tue Nov 15 2011, 08:00 | By Daniel Robinson

Posted on 11/15/2011 7:04:23 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

Timeline As Intel celebrates the 40th birthday of the 4004 chip, The INQUIRER looks at the key landmarks

ON THE OCCASION of the 40th anniversary of Intel's 4004 chip, The INQUIRER believes we have mapped the most significant PC microprocessor developments that have shaped our information technology landscape over the last four decades. The timeline we've come up with is below. µ Link to PDF File below:

microprocessor-timeline-2

 


(Excerpt) Read more at theinquirer.net ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: hitech
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To: blam
I am sitting here trying to compare micron''s with nanometers....

AMD's latest is done at 32 nanometers....

And Intel is set to pump out ivy Bridge next year at 22 nanometers.

21 posted on 11/15/2011 8:50:29 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: tubebender
Keep my car running?

Who Knew?

22 posted on 11/15/2011 8:51:39 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

8088 BABY

You never forget your first.

23 posted on 11/15/2011 9:11:08 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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Donate Today!

24 posted on 11/15/2011 9:11:33 PM PST by RedMDer (Forward With Confidence!)
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To: bunkerhill7
When the 80486 first came out we were installing it in our clones in Fremont, CA and they came back full of bugs from our customers- It was a big loser at first. Intel used the clone mom and pop operations as beta testers for the 80486.

The dealer I worked for got the very first Acer 80486 computer in Kansas City. We were amazed at the blazing speed. To really test it out, we loaded up cshow (a graphic slide show program) and a bunch of porn photos, and set the autoexec.bat to start up the slideshow automatically... Then we went to lunch. When we got back the computer was gone. A salesman had boxed it up and taken it our to a major Fortune 500 client to demo it... He hooked it up in their conference room, turned it on, and went on his way to visit some people there and invite them to the demo. We heard that when he got back to the conference room, it was packed with "spectators" and he had trouble getting in...

Mark

25 posted on 11/15/2011 9:17:43 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
One micron equals one thousand nanometers.
One micron is exactly one one-millionth of a meter (0.000001 meter).
26 posted on 11/15/2011 10:08:36 PM PST by blam
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To: SunkenCiv

No, 101000b years


27 posted on 11/16/2011 12:10:36 AM PST by Bobalu (More rubble, less trouble)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Your post would be much better if we could see the pictures.


28 posted on 11/16/2011 8:08:33 AM PST by China Clipper ( Animals? Sure I like animals. See? There they are next to the potatoes!)
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To: China Clipper
There were too many to include....and I worry about them being om the exclude list and then the whole thread gets yanked.

Are you reluctant to follow the link?

29 posted on 11/16/2011 10:00:38 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
One of the photos:


Jack Kilby examines a wafer filled with chips.
Photo: Texas Instruments

30 posted on 11/16/2011 10:08:35 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: blam

The good old days for some of us.


31 posted on 11/16/2011 12:06:00 PM PST by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned.)
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To: Bobalu

LOL!


32 posted on 11/16/2011 7:15:11 PM PST by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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