Technical Specifications
Introduction Date | Clock Speeds | Bus Width | Number of Transistors | Addressable Memory | Virtual Memory | Brief Description | |
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4004 | 11/15/71 | 108 KHz | 4 bits | 2,300 (10 microns) | 640 bytes | First microcomputer chip, Arithmetic manipulation | |
8008 | 4/1/72 | 108 KHz | 8 bits | 3,500 | 16 KBytes | Data/character manipulation | |
8080 | 4/1/74 | 2 MHz | 8 bits | 6,000 (6 microns) | 64 KBytes | 10X the performance of the 8008 | |
8086 | 6/8/78 | 5 MHz 8 MHz 10 MHz | 16 bits | 29,000 (3 microns) | 1 Megabyte | 10X the performance of the 8080 | |
8088 | 6/1/79 | 5 MHz 8 MHz | 8 bits | 29,000 (3 microns) | Identical to 8086 except for its 8-bit external bus | ||
80286 | 2/1/82 | 8 MHz 10 MHz 12 MHz | 16 bits | 134,000 (1.5 microns) | 16 Megabytes | 1 gigabyte | 3-6X the performance of the 8086 |
Intel386(TM)DX Microprocessor | 10/17/85 | 16 MHz 20 MHz 25 MHz 33 MHz | 32 bits | 275,000 (1 micron) | 4 gigabytes | 64 terabytes | First X86 chip to handle 32-bit data sets |
Intel386(TM)SX Microprocessor | 6/16/88 | 16 MHz 20 MHz | 16 bits | 275,000 (1 micron) | 4 gigabytes | 64 terabytes | 16-bit address bus enabled low-cost 32-bit processing |
Intel486(TM)DX Microprocessor | 4/10/89 | 25 MHz 33 MHz 50 MHz | 32 bits | 1,200,000 (1 micron, .8 micron with 50 MHz) | 4 gigabytes | 64 terabytes | Level 1 cache on chip |
Intel486(TM)SX Microprocessor | 4/22/91 | 16 MHz 20 MHz 25 MHz 33 MHz | 32 bits | 1,185,000 (.8 micron) | 4 gigabytes | 64 terabytes | identical in design to Intel486(TM) DX but without math coprocessor |
Pentium® Processor | 3/22/93 | 60MHz 66MHz 75MHz 90MHz 100MHz 120MHz 133MHz 150MHz 166MHz | 32 bits | 3.1 million (.8 micron) | 4 gigabytes | 64 terabytes | superscaler architecture brought 5X the performance of the 33-MHz Intel486 DX processor |
Pentium® Pro Processor | 3/27/95 | 150MHz 180MHz 200MHz | 32 bits | 5.5 million (.32 micron) | 4 gigabytes | 64 terabytes | dynamic execution architecture drives high-performing processor |