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In the 7400-series of logic chips, there are some oddballs; the 7447 seven-segment display driver is useful, but the 74881 ALU and 74361 bubble memory timing generator aren’t exactly something ...
What makes the Gigatron exceptional is the fact that there is no microprocessor; everything is just a RAM, a ROM, and a bunch of logic chips. There is no ALU chip.
The 4004 integrated the different CPU components into one 2,300-transistor chip. 4004 wasn't just a new direction for the computer industry; it was also a new direction for Intel.
The building of linear, passive, and ultracompact silicon optical logic gates might pave the way to construct novel nanophotonic on-chip processor architectures for future optical computing ...
Among the most popular on-chip macros are microprocessor cores, preferred because there are ten times more programmers than logic designers and because programming is a higher-level abstraction ...
Intel beefed up servers based on dual-Xeon configurations with the two versions of its long-anticipated Lindenhurst chip sets and a storage I/O processor.
While chiplets have been around for decades, today they are the hottest trend in chip making powering millions of devices from PCs, to servers, phones and wearables.