CPU

CPU-Z Z270 i5-7600K

Fairchild, Intel, Motorola, TI, MOS, Zilog, Sun, Dec, IBM, ARM

Fairchild IC's (traitorous eight)
Intel 4004, 8008, 8088
Zilog Z80
Motorola 6800
MOS 6502
Acorn ARM

RISC Berkley / IBM
MIPS Stanford
IBM PowerPC
SUN Sparc
DEC Alpha

MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, EM64T, VT-x, AES, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, TSX

	Integration level	Year	Logic gates
MSI	Medium Scale Integration	1976	20-200
LSI	Large‐scale integration	1970	200-2000	10 µm
VLSI	Very large‐scale integration	1980	2.000-20.000	1.5 µm
ULSI	Ultra large‐scale Integration	1990	20.000-200.000	600 nm
SLSI	Super large‐scale integration	2000	200.000- 2 million	130 nm
		2010	2 million - 20 million	22 nm
		2020	20 million - 200 million	5 nm

1976: IBM 801 first conceptual RISC processor

1980: DARPA VLSI Project University funding

RISC Berkley (David Patterson)

MIPS Stanford University (John Hennessy)

1984 Company: MIPS Techology

1992 Acquired by SGI

1998 Divested

2013 Imagination (from PowerVR)

2022 Moved to RISC-V

Architecture and Licensing

Lexra

University of Berkeley project

1981 RISC I (44,500 transistors, 31 instructions, 78 32-bit registers)

RISC Foundation

2015 RISC V

OS (BSD/Linux/Windows etc): uses MMU Memory Management Unit

RTOS: Task scheduler.

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