数据点

2022年7月22日

CPU的想法在1969年,维克多可怜的计算机终端集团副总裁(CTC),已要求英特尔集成到几个芯片大约一百逻辑电路占CTC的处理器的智能终端称为“数据点2000”。“霍夫(Ted Hoff的发明者4004 CPU)估计,英特尔可以集成到一个芯片”记得费德里科•Faggin把4004硅。微处理器芯片可能是第一个,因为英特尔在4004年开始工作。然而CTC项目被搁置当Faggin设计者哈尔·费尼被分配去做一个内存芯片设计。“英特尔在1970年底恢复CTC的项目在我的方向”Faggin说。捐助回来帮忙。结果CTC没有使用芯片(它内部称为1201)因为它是太慢,和需要太多支持芯片(20),和1971年的经济衰退中不经济的成本降低了芯片设计的逻辑组件替换。CTC同意让英特尔使用1201的架构,以换取放弃其开发费用和英特尔把它放在市场为8008。8008年取得了一些区别的CPU什么可以说是第一个PC。“你可以叫电脑的第一件事是法国机器——米斯特拉尔——使用8008年和在1972年或73年出售通用台式电脑”,Faggin说。 The birth of the 8008 also gave rise to one of the other claims on the parentage of the first microprocessor. CTC had asked Texas Instruments to make the same chip as a second source. In June 1971 TI ran an advertisement in Electronics captioned ‘CPU on a chip’ describing the CTC chip. “Surprisingly,” comments Faggin, “TI patented the architecture of the 1201 which was CTC’s architecture with Intel’s inputs, but the TI chip never worked, and was never marketed.” “An invention requires reduction to practice it can’t just be an idea” explains Faggin the idea of a CPU on a chip had been around since the mid-60s. Fairchild had developed a 1-bit serial CPU architecture as had Rockwell. TI might have been the first company to announce the microprocessor, but making it work was the trick.” Recommended Articles