The company ’ s first microprocessor ( MC6800 8-bit ) was introduced in 1974, and was used in automotive, computing and video game applications.

The lab has trainer kits like Z80, 8085, 8086, 80286, MC6800 ; dedicated controllers like 8051 ; circuit emulation equipments ; computer aided IC testing, and microprocessor based measuring equipment.

Motorola MC6800 Microprocessor.

The original MC6800 could have a clock frequency of up to 1 MHz.

Prior founding the Western Design Center in 1978, Bill Mensch held design engineering and management positions at Philco-Ford, Motorola, MOS Technology and Integrated Circuit Engineering. Bill Mensch, creator of the 65C02 and 65C816 microprocessors, and co-inventor of the Motorola 6800 | MC6800 and MOS Technology 6502 | MOS6502 microprocessors.

The RT was based on the ROMP microprocessor, the first commercial RISC chip.

When Compaq introduced the first PC based on Intel's new 80386 microprocessor, the Compaq Deskpro 386, in 1986, it marked the first CPU change to the PC platform that was not initiated by IBM.

The main contribution of Alpha to the microprocessor industry, and the main reason for its performance, was not so much the architecture but rather its implementation.

The first version, the Alpha 21064 or EV4, was the first CMOS microprocessor whose operating frequency rivalled higher-powered ECL minicomputers and mainframes.

The second, 21164 or EV5, was the first microprocessor to place a large secondary cache on chip.

The third, 21264 or EV6, was the first microprocessor to combine both high operating frequency and the more complicated out-of-order execution microarchitecture.

The spacecraft was controlled by six RCA 1802 COSMAC microprocessor CPUs: four on the spun side and two on the despun side.

This microprocessor was the first low-power CMOS processor chip, quite on a par with the 8-bit 6502 that was being built into the Apple II desktop computer at that time.

Every HLM and LLM was built up around a single 1802 microprocessor and 32K of RAM ( for HLMs ) or 16K of RAM ( for LLMs ).

The IA-32 instruction set was introduced in the Intel 80386 microprocessor in 1986 and remains the basis of most PC microprocessors over twenty years later.

The Intel 80286 ( also called iAPX 286 ), introduced on 1 February 1982, was a 16-bit x86 microprocessor with 134, 000 transistors.

The Intel 8080 was the second 8-bit microprocessor designed and manufactured by Intel and was released in April 1974.

Using the two additional pins ( read and write signals ), it was possible to assemble simple microprocessor devices very easily.

The 8086 ( also called iAPX 86 ) is a 16-bit microprocessor chip designed by Intel between early 1976 and mid-1978, when it was released.

The 8080 device, often described as the first truly useful microprocessor, was eventually replaced by the depletion-load based 8085 ( 1977 ) which could cope with a single 5V power supply instead of the three different operating voltages of earlier chips.

The Intel 8088 microprocessor was a variant of the Intel 8086 and was introduced on July 1, 1979.

The Intel 80386, also known as the i386, or just 386, was a 32-bit microprocessor introduced by Intel in 1985.

The 386 was the first significant microprocessor to be single-sourced.

The Intel 80486 microprocessor ( alias i486 or Intel486 ) was a higher performance follow up on the Intel 80386.

Intel's i486SX was a modified Intel 486DX microprocessor with its floating-point unit ( FPU ) disconnected.

, Itanium was the fourth-most deployed microprocessor architecture for enterprise-class systems, behind x86-64, IBM POWER, and SPARC.

Intel was willing to undertake a very large development effort on IA-64 in the expectation that the resulting microprocessor would be used by the majority of enterprise systems manufacturers.

In about 1991, Software Components Group was acquired by Integrated Systems Inc. ( ISI ) who further developed pSOS-now restyled pSOS +-for other microprocessor families, by rewriting the greater part of it in C. Attention was also paid to supporting successively more integrated development environments, culminating in pRISM +.

As part of its marketing, AMD even made sure that motherboard manufacturers conspicuously showed the PR number of the microprocessor in the motherboards ' POST and not include the processors ' clock speeds anywhere except within the BIOS.

There are exceptions to the rule where if any part of a platform that has another microprocessor such as the Zilog Z80 will not be supported.

The UltraSPARC is a microprocessor developed by Sun Microsystems who is now a part of Oracle Corporation and fabricated by Texas Instruments that implements the SPARC V9 instruction set architecture ( ISA ).

The Apollo microprocessor core that was part of the RM9x00 had its pipeline lengthened to 7 stages to enable higher operating frequencies.

The most common example of this is a microprocessor for which only one part of the on-die cache memory is functional.

Dramatic improvements in density were possible, as the rapid improvement in microprocessor design was showing, but for the type of ICs used by Cray, ones representing a very small part of a complete circuit, the design had plateaued.

* Synergistic Processing Element, part of the Cell microprocessor used in the PlayStation 3 video game console

In part because Microsoft intended NT to be portable between various microprocessor architectures, the MIPS RISC architecture was chosen for one of the first development platforms for the NT project in the late 1980s / early 1990s.

The term " Microcomputer " also was seriously employed for the first time designating the Micral N as the first solid state machine designed with a microprocessor.

Despite the release of the 2200 PCS ( Personal Computer System ) and 2200 PCS-II models as early as 1976, the history of computing regards the earliest PC as one which contained a microprocessor, which the 2200 PCS didn't.

In 1976, the company released the first video game system to use ROM cartridges, the Fairchild Video Entertainment System ( or VES ) later renamed Channel F, using the F8 microprocessor.

The 3B1, also known as the PC7300 or UNIX PC, was a desktop workstation computer based on the Motorola MC68010 microprocessor, running an operating system from Convergent Technology ( based on Unix System V Release 2 ).

Past research projects include Jamaica, AMULET microprocessor, Network On Chip, Asynchronous Digital signal processors and System on a chip.

Prior to the divestiture of the Bell System on January 1, 1984, the Bell Labs Processor Division had developed the 3B20D (" D " for Duplex ); the commercial simplex version 3B20S, which competed with the DEC VAX for internal Bell System usage ; the world's first 32-bit microprocessor, the BELLMAC 32A ; and, using this microprocessor, the 3B5 and 3B15 computers for billing and telecom switching control applications.

But by the late 1980s, AT & T had almost given up, sold most of its stake in Sun Microsystems, spun the UNIX business off as Unix System Laboratories ( which was later bought by Novell ), canceled its WE 32000 ( aka BELLMAC ) and CRISP ( C Reduced Instruction Set Processor ) microprocessor product lines, and just concentrated on networked server computer systems.

In hardware, it is an upgrade from Sony's PlayStation-based System 11, the MIPS R3000A microprocessor is 50 % faster, and the C76 sound processor is replaced by the H8 / 3002.

This feature was also added to the z10 microprocessor featured in the System z10.

* Picture Processing Unit-a dedicated graphics microprocessor used in the Nintendo Entertainment System