Microprocessor Display

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Microprocessor Facts
4-bit Intel CPU’s
8-bit Intel CPU’s
16-bit Intel CPU’s
32-bit Intel CPU’s
64-bit Intel CPU’s
Other CPU’s

Microprocessor Facts

Some must know facts about the Microprocessor:

CPU – Central Processing Unit

The Central Processing Unit (CPU) is the electronic circuitry within a computer that carries out the instructions of a computer program
Intel 4004

The Intel 4004 is a 4-bit central processing unit (CPU) released by Intel Corporation in 1971. It was the first commercially available microprocessor by Intel.
It’s all about the Pentium! https://youtu.be/xr9IZQa_vpU
Moore’s Law

The number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years. Named after Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel.

Moore's Law — By Max Roser, Hannah Ritchie – https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2020/11/Transistor-Count-over-time.png, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=98219918

5. Block diagram of a basic uniprocessor-CPU computer: Black lines indicate data flow, whereas red lines indicate control flow; arrows indicate flow directions.

By Lambtron – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37716438

6. Here are two silicon wafers and a photomask which are used in the manufacturing process of a CPU. These samples were created at Carleton University’s Microelectric Fabrication Laboratory.

Cores
Having multiple processing units on a single die. An 8-core CPU is equivalent to having the processing power of 8 single CPUs.
Ingot
A silicon ingot is “grown” from a seed crystal that forms a large crystal. It’s then sliced into wafers and used in the manufacturing process of your CPU die.
CPU Frequency
The CPU frequency or clock rate measures the number of instructions the CPU can process per second.

4 Bit CPUs


Name	Year
Intel 4004	1971
Intel 4040	1974

The story of the Intel 4004

Ted Hoff Inventor of the Microprocessor

8 Bit CPUs


Name	Year
Intel 8008	1972
Intel 8080	1974
Intel 8085	1976

8-bit computing wiki

Zilog Z80

Microsoft card — The **Z-80 SoftCard** from 1980 is a plug-in Apple II processor card developed by Microsoft to turn the computer into a CP/M system based upon the Zilog Z80 central processing unit (CPU)

The Zilog Z80 is an 8-bit microprocessor launched in July 1976 and was widely used in both desktop computers and embedded systems. [Thank you John Stewart, IT staff from the school of Mathematics, for donating this item to the display]

16 Bit CPUs


Name	Year
Intel 8086	1979
Intel 8087	1980
Intel 8088	1979
Intel 80186	1982
Intel 80286	1982

“Wow this 286-CPU had contacts and not pins. Ahead of its time.”

IBM Personal Computer/AT

32 Bit CPUs


Name	Year
Intel i386 DX-20 (80386)	1985
Intel 80387	1987
Intel 80386 SX-16	1988


Name	Product Code	Year
Intel i486 DX-33	A80486DX-33	1990
Intel i486 SX-25	80486SX-25	1991
Intel i486 DX2-66	A80486DX2-66	1992
Intel i486 DX2-50	A80486DX2-50	1993
Intel i486 SX2-50	A80486SX2-50	1994
Intel i486 DX4-75	FC80486DX4-75	1994
AMD Am486 DX4-100	Am486DX4-100	1994
Intel i486 OverDrive	80486	1995

Intel DX4 FC80486DX4-75, most likely from an older laptop

Intel Pentium


Name	Product Code	Year
Intel Pentium	80501	1993
Intel Pentium	80502	1994
Intel Pentium	80503	1995
Intel Pentium Pro	80521	1995
Intel Pentium II	80522	1997


Name	Product Code	Year
Intel PII Mobile	80524	1999
Intel Celeron	80524	1999
Intel PIII	80526	1999
Intel Celeron	80526	2001
Intel Xeon	80528	2001

The desktop version of this CPU was a large cartridge design. The laptop version seen here is unique!


Name	Product Code	Year
Intel PIII	80530	2001
Intel PIII	80533	2001
Intel P4	80531	2001
Intel Xeon	80532	2002
Intel P4	80532	2002
Intel P4	80532	2002
Intel P4 Mobile	80532	2002
Intel Xeon	80532	2003
Intel Celeron	80532	2003

Intel Pentium III Xeon cartridge with the cover removed


Name	Product Code	Year
Intel Pentium M	80535	2003
Intel Celeron M	80536	2004
Intel Celeron D	80546	2004
Intel Celeron D	80547	2004

When the Intel Pentium 4 and D and Core2Duo CPU’s came out in 2004 Intel introduced the LGA (Land Grid Array) sockets. Those are the CPU’s that have contacts rather than the PGA (Pin Grid Array) which are the CPU’s that have pin’s.

PGA socket: CPU Pins LGA socket: CPU Contacts

64 Bit CPUs


Name	Product Code	Year
Intel P4	80547	2005
Intel Pentium D	80551	2005
Intel Celeron M	80538	2006
Intel Core Duo	80539	2006
Intel Pentium D	80553	2006
Intel Core 2 Duo	80537	2007


Name	Product Code	Year
Intel Xeon	80555	2006
Intel Xeon	80556	2006
Intel Dual Core	80557	2007
Intel Core 2 Duo	80557	2007
Intel Core 2 Quad	80562	2007
Intel Itanium 2	80567	2007

Itanium-based systems were produced by HP/Hewlett Packard Enterprise and several other manufacturers. In 2008, Itanium was the fourth-most deployed microprocessor architecture for enterprise-class systems.


Name	Product Code	Year
Intel Core 2 Quad	80569	2008
Celeron Dual Core	80571	2009
Intel Xeon	80574	2007
Intel Core 2 Quad	80580	2008


Name	Product Code	Year
Intel Xeon	80602	2010
Intel Xeon	80614	2010
Intel Core i3	80623	2011

Mobile Intel CPUs


Name	Product Code	Year
Intel i5 Mobile	80617	2010
Dual Core Mobile	80617	2010
Intel i5 Mobile	80627	2011
Dual Core Mobile	80627	2012

Other CPU’s

**AMD Athlon CPU**: You can see the shiny CPU die in the middle. This becomes exceedingly hot during operation and is cooled by a large metal heatsink and fan. You can still see the white thermal paste used to help conduct the heat.

AMD CPUs


Name	Specific Model	Year
AMD Am286	AMD N80L286-16/S	1984
AMD Am386	AMD Am386 9X-40	1991
AMD Am486	AMD Am486 DX4-120	1993
AMD K6-2		1999
AMD Athlon		1999
AMD Athlon XP	AMD Athlon XP 1800+	1999
AMD Athlon 64		2003
AMD Athlon 64 X2		2005

Apple & Sun CPUs


Name	Year
Motorola MC68020RC33
Sun UltraSPARC II	1997
Sun UltraSPARC III	2001
Sun UltraSPARC IV	2004


Name	Product Code	Year
Intel Mobile Pentium	80502	1994
Intel Pentium (Exposed Die)		1995
Intel i960	80960	1984

Intel 486 with exposed die — Intel 486 with an exposed die