The Evolution of the Microprocessor

Integrated Circuits: Evolution of Electronic Miracles Microprocessors have evolved during years of research and people all over the world have enjoyed the benefits of this electronic miracle. Compared to the present invention, it is difficult to think of things that affect modern life. Cell phones, watches, calculators, automobiles, stereo systems, televisions and computers are just a few of the thousands of electronic devices, the center of which is microchip.

Intel is the company that invented the first microprocessor and the largest microprocessor manufacturer. The development of the desktop microprocessor took place only for a few months. Performance is one of the main aspects for improving the evolution of microprocessors. The evolution of microprocessors is the ingenuity of technology, theory and design, user's demands, economic and commercial pressure. Even with high performance processors, Intel plans to introduce a midrange processor based on user needs.

Microprocessors are the evolution of transistors and integrated circuits. You can see the rapid growth of the microprocessor industry. The latest microprocessor is different from the first microprocessor. In contrast, the first Intel microprocessor in 4004 has 2,300 transistors and a clock speed of 108 kHz. One of the latest Intel microprocessors in the Intel Core i7 950 has 731 million transistors and a clock speed of 06 GHz. Today, microprocessors are used in a wide range of applications not only for high-tech equipment such as computers but also for the use of simple electronic equipment such as toys.

From 1997 to 2012, 8 series of Intel microprocessors were used for the evolution process. Over the years, microprocessors have been improved and changed. These improvements include clock speed, number of cores, number of transistors, cache, addressable memory, bus type, and bus speed. There are many kinds of improvements in the development of microprocessors, but this document will only describe the improvements described above. Table 1 shows the evolution of Intel microprocessors from 1997 to 2012.