When microprocessors emerged to the market in the 1970s, Intersil participated with its 12-bit IM6100, which was the first microprocessor produced in CMOS technology and emulated the PDP-8 instruction set.

When testing microprocessors for SEU, the software used to exercise the device must also be evaluated to determine which sections of the device were activated when SEUs occurred.

When the system is idle, the CPU clocks itself down via lower bus multiplier and selects a lower voltage.

When a program demands more computational resources, the CPU quickly ( there is some latency ) returns to an intermediate or maximum speed with appropriate voltage to meet the demand.

When the PC starts up, the first job for the BIOS is the power-on self-test, which initializes and identifies system devices such as the CPU, RAM, video display card, keyboard and mouse, hard disk drive, optical disc drive and other hardware.

When the cache client ( a CPU, web browser, operating system ) needs to access a datum presumed to exist in the backing store, it first checks the cache.

When the computer ran a program that needed access to a peripheral, the Central processing unit ( CPU ) would have to stop executing program instructions while the peripheral processed the data.

When the read is over, the CPU can be interrupted and presented with the read.

When a task switch occurs the CPU can automatically load the new state from the TSS.

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.

When a new symbol has been entered, the device typically sends an interrupt to alert the CPU to read it.

When the keyboard processor detects that a key has changed state, it sends a signal to the CPU indicating the scan code of the key and its new state.

When either writing through or directly to physical device registers, this may, but not necessarily, cause a real interrupt to occur at the device's central processor unit ( CPU ), if it has one.

When reading from memory, data addressed by MAR is fed into the MDR ( memory data register ) and then used by the CPU.

When writing to memory, the CPU writes data from MDR to the memory location whose address is stored in MAR.

When there is a write instruction, the data to be written is placed into the MDR from another CPU register, which then puts the data into memory.

When a CPU is executing a program that calls for a floating-point operation, there are three ways to carry it out:

When a CPU is executing a program that calls for a floating-point operation not directly supported by the hardware, the CPU uses a series of simpler floating-point operations.

When you reach a CPU bottleneck, the choices then are either improve the code or add more CPU.

When shared between threads, however, even simple data structures become prone to race hazards if they require more than one CPU instruction to update: two threads may end up attempting to update the data structure at the same time and find it unexpectedly changing underfoot.

** When Epsilon III was discovered to be harboring a gigantic machine in the two part episode " A Voice in the Wilderness ," it is discovered that a living being named Varn had integrated himself with the machine to act as a CPU for the machine.

When originally developed, for the Intel i860, the use of integer math made sense ( both 2D and 3D calculations required it ), but as graphics cards that did much of this became common, integer SIMD in the CPU became somewhat redundant for graphical applications.

When the transfer is complete, the device interrupts the CPU.

When a TOE is used rather than an HBA, the host processor still has to perform the processing of the iSCSI protocol layer itself, but the CPU overhead for that task is low.

* When compared to running on DB2 9, depending on the workload, customers may experience reduced CPU utilization

When smoking using wood chips or chunks, the combustion temperature is often raised by soaking the pieces in water before placing them on a fire.

When moving to the sleeping state the memory was not lost and instead the system simply stopped working on the contents of memory, which allowed for many of the chips inside to be turned off.

When the chips are down they all default to power positions and self-protection and status and the one woman who was a challenge to them, with all with her wit and intellect, they are all gleeful and relieved to see crushed.

When 100 MHz SDRAM chips first appeared, some manufacturers sold " 100 MHz " modules that could not reliably operate at that clock rate.

When it is not feasible to construct a SoC for a particular application, an alternative is a system in package ( SiP ) comprising a number of chips in a single package.

When Federico Faggin designed the MCS-4 family, he also christened the chips with distinct names: 4001, 4002, 4003, and 4004, breaking away from the numbering scheme used by Intel at that time which would have required the names 1302, 1105, 1507, and 1202 respectively.

When a player has no chips remaining ( and has exhausted or declined all re-buy options, if any are available ) he or she is eliminated from the tournament.

When the first electronic games were sold, they only had rudimentary sound chips with which to produce music.

When hunting for wood-boring larvae it chips away at the rotten wood, and the litter at the foot of a tree is often the first indication that insects are attacking upper branches.

When connecting two chips together, carefully examine the clock phase initialization values to be sure of using the right settings.

When he carves a new linchpin for her, she pays him with the cast-off wood chips which turn into gold if he is wise enough to take them.

When the New Brunswick Legislature was not sitting, Hatfield sold potato chips all over the Maritimes.

When baked or dehydrated, Kale takes on a consistency similar to that of a potato chip, and is a much healthier alternative to regular potato chips.

When one compares the wide variety of chips and sheer size of the older Soundscape boards to the highly integrated 2-chip design of the AudioPCI, the cost-reduction is obvious.

When he tells Parasite and Plastique, they manage to disable the chips and attempt to form their own group of criminals.

When they filmed the shots of the otter the crew had all retired to a little café in the village and ordered their fish and chips when the owner of the café came and told them that there was an otter that frequented the shore there-they were far more interested in getting their fish and chips until the woman said, " Oh yes, he sometimes comes right up onto the beach-oh, there he is now ......" and the crew and Oddie were out of the door before she'd finished the sentence!

When served accompanied by chips, it is known as a white pudding supper.

When the O * N * E implant chips in the mutants necks, they all learn that they cannot leave the estate whenever they please and if they misbehave, they receive an electric shock.

When the initiative started, RISC based systems ( running at 100-200 MHz at the time ) had substantial performance advantage over Intel 80486 and original Pentium chips ( running at approximately 60 MHz at the time ).

When not served with a dip, the chips are often seasoned with herbs and spices.

When he reached the final table at the 1995 main event, he set the runner-up, Howard Goldfarb, to bluff for all his chips in the final hand.

When the bar is full, the player can select up to five Battle Chips, which are provided from a folder of player-selected chips.

When Vin Prothro, President, and L. J. Sevin, Chairman of the Board, discovered that Zilog had modified the recipe for Z80 chips to keep the yields low, thereby buying Zilog time to build their own fabs, Mostek sought a new microprocessor partner.