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Parent topics
- Integrated circuit [r]: Miniaturized electronic circuit that has been manufactured in the surface of a thin substrate of semiconductor material. [e]
- Central processor [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Multicore processor [r]: One of several independent processing units in a single integrated circuit package; other than at the lowest hardware and software level, the integrated circuit is treated as a single processing element [e]
- Floating point coprocessor [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Memory management unit [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
Major current product series
- Pentium family of computer chips [r]: A successful family of single chip computer, used in most home computers built in the early 2000s [e]
Initial processors
- intel 4004 [r]: An early single chip computer chip, from the 1970s, and a lineal ancestor of the Pentium [e]
- intel 8008 [r]: An early single chip computer chip, from the 1970s, and a lineal ancestor of the Pentium [e]
80yz86 family
General purpose
- intel 8080 [r]: An early single chip computer chip, from the 1970s, derived from the Intel 8008 but to some extent a predecessor of the Intel 8086 [e]
- intel 8086 [r]: An early single chip computer with 16-bit architecture, with a more extensive instruction set than the Intel 8080 and greater speed than the Intel 8088 [e]
- intel 8088 [r]: An early single chip computer with 16-bit architecture, chosen by IBM for the 1979 introduction of the first model of the IBM PC; slower and cheaper than the Intel 8086 [e]
- intel 80188 [r]: A single chip processor, with 16-bit internal processing but a cheaper 8-bit bus, ancestral to Intel's Pentium family of computer chips, faster than the 8086 [e]
- intel 80186 [r]: A single chip processor, with 16-bit internal processing and bus, ancestral to Intel's Pentium family of computer chips, faster than the Intel 8086 and slower than the Intel 80286; no virtual memory support [e]
- intel 80286 [r]: A single chip processor ancestral to Intel's Pentium family of computer chips, a speedier version of the 80186 that added limited virtual memory support [e]
- intel 80386 [r]: A single chip processor ancestral to Intel's Pentium family of computer chips , faster than the Intel 80286; it added demand-paged virtual memory [e]
- intel 80486 [r]: A single chip processer ancestral to intel's Pentium family of single chip computers [e]
Embedded computers
- intel 8051 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- intel 8052 [r]: Add brief definition or description
Coprocessors & support
- intel 8087 [r]: The floating point co-processor to intel's 8086 and 8088 brands of single chip computers [e]
- intel 80187 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- intel 80287 [r]: The floating point co-processor for the intel 80286 single chip computer [e]
- intel 80387 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- intel 80487 [r]: A processor marketed as a floating point co-processor to the intel 80486sx single chip computer [e]
Specialized processors
- intel iapx 432 [r]: An intel processor introduced in 1981, which was architecturally unrelated to 4004-Pentium series [e]
- intel iapx 860 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- intel iapx 960 [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
- Advanced Micro Devices [r]: A major manufacturer of integrated circuit chips, especially processors [e]
- single chip computer [r]: Add brief definition or description
