Microprocessors

Microprocessor & CPU reviews. A microprocessor is an ultracompact central processing unit of a digital computer. It evolved during the 1970s trend the minicomputer began. By the mid-1980s, microprocessors were incorporating up to 275,000 logical computer elements on a silicon wafer. By the early 1990s a microprocessor incorporating 3.1 million elements had been produced. Experts project that microprocessors incorporating 100 million elements will be fabricated before the turn of the century. This development was made possible by advances in solid-state electronic circuit manufacture called large-scale integration and the CMOS fabrication technique that produces chips that consume little power and generate little heat. The links included herein relate to product reviews of microprocessors and Related Resources.