This has allowed synchronous microprocessors to have clock rates ranging from tens of megahertz to several gigahertz.

These monitors have advanced microprocessors which contain codec information, Windows Interface drivers and other small software which help in proper functioning of these functions.

Even though the instruction set has remained intact, the successive generations of microprocessors that run it have become much faster.

Continued increases in microprocessor capacity have rendered other forms of computers almost completely obsolete ( see history of computing hardware ), with one or more microprocessors used in everything from the smallest embedded systems and handheld devices to the largest mainframes and supercomputers.

Some computers ( which typically have high-performance microprocessors, large amounts of RAM, and high-performance video cards ) use a water-cooling system instead of many fans.

A typical home in a developed country is likely to have only four general-purpose microprocessors but around three dozen microcontrollers.

Current technology has moved far past this mark and today's microprocessors have many millions of gates and billions of individual transistors.

As microprocessors become more complex due to technology scaling, microprocessor designers have encountered several challenges which force them to think beyond the design plane, and look ahead to post-silicon:

Since the early and mid-1990s, many microprocessors for desktops and servers have more than one FPU.

Most modern microprocessors have at least one of these features in their CPU design to make debugging easier:

On the other hand, static RAM used at a somewhat slower pace, such as in applications with moderately clocked microprocessors, draws very little power and can have a nearly negligible power consumption when sitting idle — in the region of a few micro-watts.

It does however have dozens of computers and microprocessors, connected by of cable.

Also, with the advent of 64-bit microprocessors, multi-core CPUs, and large SMP multiprocessors, DBMS vendors have been at the forefront of supporting multi-threaded implementations that substantially scale up transaction processing capacity.

The term " PowerPC G3 " is often, and incorrectly, imagined to be a microprocessor when in fact a number of microprocessors from different vendors have been used.

There are many microprocessors throughout the system since the system must handle large amounts of data and it's unacceptable to have any wait times ( for example, when the system is recording or playing your message, it's unacceptable if the system stops recording momentarily like computers often do while accessing large files ).

Since the advent of microprocessors and digital signal processing, " modeling amps " have been developed in the late 1990s, these can simulate the sounds of a variety of well-known tube amplifiers without needing to use vacuum tubes.

Modern microprocessors tend to have quite long pipelines so that the misprediction delay is between 10 and 20 clock cycles.

Many microprocessors today have loop predictors.

Many microprocessors have a separate prediction mechanism for return instructions.

Most low-cost embedded microprocessors and microcontrollers do not have an FPU.

Embedded microprocessors can also have registers corresponding to specialized hardware elements.

The Intel x86 family of microprocessors have a register-style instruction set for most operations, but use stack instructions for its oldest x87 form of floating point arithmetic.

Major undertakings at IBM Research have included the invention of innovative materials and structures, high-performance microprocessors and computers, analytical methods and tools, algorithms, software architectures, methods for managing, searching and deriving meaning from data and in turning IBM's advanced services methodologies into reusable assets.

" Although lead containing solder cannot be completely eliminated from all applications today, AMD engineers have developed effective technical solutions to reduce lead content in microprocessors and chipsets to ensure RoHS compliance while minimizing costs and maintaining product features.

They were likely the first 32-bit general-purpose microprocessors on the market, but due to a number of factors never managed to become a major player.

Because of this, DG gave up working with Motorola, and decided instead to align its efforts with what was soon to become the clear winner in volume microprocessors, and used i386 architecture CPUs from Intel instead.

The Intel x86 microprocessors would go on to become the brains for the IBM PC, while the Motorola 68000 would become the heart of the Apple Computer line.

As a venture capitalist, Palevsky helped to fund many companies, including Intel, which grew to become one of the nation's leading semiconductor companies and a pioneer in the development of memory chips and microprocessors.

* Field-programmable gate arrays ( FPGA )-common for soft microprocessors, and more or less required for reconfigurable computing

Today there are additional technologies used for digital signal processing including more powerful general purpose microprocessors, field-programmable gate arrays ( FPGAs ), digital signal controllers ( mostly for industrial apps such as motor control ), and stream processors, among others.

This approach has proven to speed up hash code generation by a factor of five or more on modern microprocessors of

While in the early days these calculations were extremely expensive to perform, the advent of high speed microprocessors has made them much more feasible today.

Logic circuits include such devices as multiplexers, registers, arithmetic logic units ( ALUs ), and computer memory, all the way up through complete microprocessors, which may contain more than 100 million gates.

Many more microprocessors are part of embedded systems, providing digital control of a myriad of objects from appliances to automobiles to cellular phones and industrial process control.

* sockets ( or slots ) in which one or more microprocessors may be installed.

Software development company Microware developed the original OS-9 operating system ( not to be confused with the more recent Mac OS 9 ) for the 6809, later porting it to the 68000 and i386 series of microprocessors.

The first single-chip microprocessor was the 4-bit Intel 4004 released in 1971, with the Intel 8008 and other more capable microprocessors becoming available over the next several years.

Development of new MIPS microprocessors stopped, and the existing R12000 design was extended multiple times until 2003 to provide existing customers more time to migrate to Itanium.

As microprocessors became more functional, TTL devices became important for " glue logic " applications, such as fast bus drivers on a motherboard, which tie together the function blocks realized in VLSI elements.

Such computers are physically small compared to mainframes and minicomputers, although present-day mainframes such as the IBM System z machines use one or more custom microprocessors as their CPUs.

Soon after, Apple, as one of Motorola's largest customers of desktop-class microprocessors, asked Motorola to join the discussions because of their long relationship, their more extensive experience with manufacturing high-volume microprocessors than IBM, and to serve as a second source for the microprocessors.

In this context, the term came about because DOS, Microsoft Windows and OS / 2 were originally written for the 8088 / 8086 and / or 80286, 16-bit microprocessors with a segmented address space where programs had to switch between segments to reach more than 64 kilobytes of code and / or data.

In newer and more improved designs, after employing hydraulics, carbon fibre, mechanical linkages, motors, computer microprocessors, and innovative combinations of these technologies to give more control to the user.

In general, CPLDs are a good choice for wide combinational logic applications, whereas FPGAs are more suitable for large state machines ( i. e. microprocessors ).

The use of assembly language is more common with smaller systems, especially those based on eight bit microprocessors such as the MOS Technology 6502 family or the Zilog Z-80.

Direct hardware support for various data structures was intended to allow modern operating systems for the 432 to be implemented using far less program code than for ordinary processors ; combined with direct support for object-oriented programming and garbage collection, this made the hardware ( mostly the microcode part ) much more complex than most processors of the era, especially microprocessors.