Microprocessors

Microprocessors#

Microprocessor:
Computer’s central processing unit (CPU) based on ICs

In 1970 the first microprocessor chipset (secretly) mass-produced for the U.S. Navy’s F-14 Tomcat fighter jet.

The Intel 4004 was the first single-chip microprocessor widely available general purposes computer.

A microprocessor is a Universal Turing Machine based on ICs.