Intel 4004; then 8008, then 8080, then 8086, then 80286, then 80386, then 80486, then Pentium, then Pentium II, then Pentium III, then Pentium IV.
concurrent with the Intel 8080, there was the Zilog Z-80; and the Motorola 6800. (I'm not completely sure of the model numbers of the early Motorola processors)
Other manufacturers also had a line of processors most notably Cirus and AMD (American Micro Devices), but they were not as early in the market as the first Intel Processors and the early Zilog and Motorola processors.
The Intel 4004, being as early as it was, naturally didn't have the hardware support that later processors had; and it didn't have the computing power that we expect today. But this was a true micropressor. the 4004 was the processor in many advanced calculators of it's day.
(by the way: the 4004 was a 4 bit processor, as technology developed the processors progressed from 4 bit, to 8 bit, to 16 bit, to 32 bit, to 64 bit)
2006-10-31 21:39:59
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It was November 1972, when Intel introduced the 8008, which was essentially an 8-bit version of the 4004. The 8008 contained approximately 3,300 transistors and was the first microprocessor to be supported by a high-level language compiler called PL/M. The 8008 was followed by the 4040, which extended the 4004's capabilities by adding logical and compare instructions, and by supporting subroutine nesting using a small internal stack.
i guess i have anwered ur question correctly
2006-10-31 21:22:03
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answered by simon 1
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