2. Intel Corporation was founded in 1968 by
• Robert Noyce
• Gorden Moore
• Andrew
• Headquarter was in Santa Clara,
California
3. Single Crystal
Silicon Wafer Silicon Wafers
Fabricated
microprocessors
DIP Packaged
Chip Quad In line Packaged Chip
4. Intel 4004
It was first Intel microprocessor
It was introduced in year: 1971
4-bit microprocessor
It can address 4 KB of memory
It had 45 instructions
Fabricated on PMOS technology
Number of transistors: 2300
Could executes 60,000 instructions per second
Was first programmable device, used in calculators
Intel 4040
It was introduced in year: 1971
4-bit microprocessor
It had 45 instructions
Number of transistors: 3000
5. Intel 8008
Introduced in year: 1972
8-bit version of 4004
Can address 16 KB of memory
Clock speed 500 kHz
Number of transistors 3500
48 instructions
PMOS technology
Slow
Intel 8080
Introduced in year : 1973
8-bit microprocessor
64KB main memory
Clock speed : 2MHz (2000nanosecond) clock cycle time
Number of transistors: 4500
10x faster than 8008, made on NMOS technology
Drawback was that it needed three power supply
Small computers (microcomputers) were designed in mid 1970s using 8080as
CPU
6. Intel 8085
Introduced in Year: 1975
8-bit microprocessor upgraded version of 8080
64KB main memory
Number of transistors: 6500
1.3 microsecond(1300 nanosecond) clock cycle time
246 instructions are in this processor
Intel sold more than 100 million copies of this 8-bit
microprocessor
Uses only one +5V power supply
7. Intel 8086/8088
Introduced in Year: 1978(for 8086) and 1979 for 8088
16-bit microprocessor
Data bus width of 8086 is 16 bit and 8-bit for 8088
It could access 1 MB main memory
Number of transistors 29000
400 nanosecond clock cycle time
6 byte instruction cache for 8086 and 4 byte for 8088
Other improvement included more registers and additional
instructions
In 1981 IBM decided to use 8088 in its personal computer
8. Intel 80186
Introduced in Year: 1982
16-bit microprocessor upgraded version of 8086
Can address1 MB of memory
Clock speed : 6 MHz
Number of transistors 55000
Contained special hardware like programmable counters,
interrupt controller etc
80188 was cheaper version of 80186
But was ideal for system that required a minimum of
hardware
9. Intel 80286
Introduced in Year: 1983
16-bit microprocessor with memory management & protection
It can address 16 MB of memory
Clock speed : 8MHz
Few additional instructions to handle extra 15 MB
Number of transistors: 1,34000
Instruction execution time is as little as 250 nanosecond
Can execute 4 millions instructions per second
introduced “virtual memory concepts”
Widely used in IBM PC
10. Intel 80386
Introduced in Year: 1986
Intel’s first practical 32-bit microprocessor
Can access 4 GB of memory, memory improvement
include page handling in virtual environment
Number of transistors: 2,75,000
Clock speed varies from 16MHz to 33 MHz depending
upon different versions like 80386 DX, 80386 SX, 80386 SL
Includes hardware circuitry for memory management and
memory assignment
Concept of Memory paging was introduced
Best selling microprocessor in history
11. Intel 80486
Introduced in Year: 1989
32-bit microprocessor high performance microprocessor
It can address 4 GB of memory
Incorporates 80387 like floating point coprocessor and
8KB cache was introduced
Number of transistors: 1.2 million
Clock speed varies from 16MHz to 100MHz depending upon
different versions like 80486 DX, 80486 SX, 80486 DX2, 80486 SL
80486 DX4
About half of the instructions executed in one clock instead of 2 on
the 80386
used in desktop PCs and servers
12. Pentium
Introduced in Year: 1993
It was originally named as 80586
32-bit microprocessor, 64-bit data bus and 32-bit address bus,
Clock speed : 66 MHz
It could access 4 GB of memory
Double clocked 120 MHz and 133 MHz versions
Fastest version is the 233 MHz, Dual processor
16 KB L1 caches: 8 KB for instruction and 8 KB for data
256 KB L2 cache
Could execute 110 million instructions per second
13. Pentium Pro
Introduced in Year: 1995
32-bit microprocessor, 64-bit data bus and 36-bit address
bus,
it could access 64 GB of memory
It had 5.5 million transistors
16KB L1 caches (split instruction/data: 8KB each),
256KB L2 cache, uses three execution engines
Intel launched this processor for the server market
14. Pentium II
Introduced in Year: 1997
It was designed for servers
32-bit microprocessor, 64-bit data bus and 36-bit address bus, MMX
64 GB main memory
Clock speed was 400 MHz to 500 MHz
Could execute 233 million instructions per second
32-bit split instruction /data L1 caches(16 KB each)
Module integrated 512KB L2 cache(133 MHz)
L2 cache and processor were on same circuit
A version of P2 called Xenon; specifically designed for high –end
applications
15. Pentium III
Year: 1999
32-bit microprocessor, 64-bit data bus and 36-bit address bus
64 GB main memory
Clock speed varied from 500 MHz to 1.4 GHz
Number of transistors: 9.5 million
Dual Independent Bus(simultaneous L2 and system memory access)
On-chip 256 KB L2 Cache
P3 was available in clock frequency of up to 1 GHZ
16. Pentium IV
Introduced in Year: 2002
32-bit microprocessor, 64-bit data bus and 36-bit address bus
64 GB main memory
Clock speed : 1.4 to 1.9 GHz and the latest at 3.20GHz and 3.46 GHz
(Hyper threading)
Number of transistors: 42 million
1MB/512 KB/256 KB L2 Cache
Used in desktops, laptops and in entry level servers
Specialized for streaming video and DVD applications
17. Intel Dual Core
It was introduced in year 2006
It is 32-bit and 64-bit microprocessor
Having two cores
both the cores have their own internal buses and L1
cache, but external bus and L2 cache are shared.
18. Intel Dual Core
It was introduced in year 2006
It is a 64-bit microprocessor
Clock speed : 1.2 GHz to 3 GHz
Number of transistors: 291 million
64 KB of L1 cache per core and 4 MB of L2 cache
Different versions are
• Intel Core 2 Duo
• Intel Core 2 Quad
• Intel Core 2 Extreme
19. Intel Core i7
It was introduced in year 2008
It is a 64-bit microprocessor
It has 4 physical cores
Clock speed : 2.66 GHz to 3.33 GHz
Number of transistors: 781 million
64 KB of L1 cache per core and 256 KB of L2 cache and
8MB of L3 cache
20. Intel Core i5
It was introduced in year 2009
It is a 64-bit microprocessor
It has 4 physical cores
Clock speed : 2.40 GHz to 3.60 GHz
Number of transistors: 781 million
64 KB of L1 cache per core and 256 KB of L2 cache and
8MB of L3 cache
21. Intel Core i3
It was introduced in year 2010
It is a 64-bit microprocessor
It has 2 physical cores
Clock speed : 2.93 GHz to 3.33 GHz
Number of transistors: 781 million
64 KB of L1 cache per core and 512 KB of L2 cache and
4MB of L3 cache
22. Micropr
ocessor
Year of
Invention
Word
Length
Memory
addressing
Capacity
Pins Clock Remarks
4004 1971 4-bit 1 KB 16 750
KHz
First
Microprocessor,
2300 transistors
8085 1976 8-bit 64 KB 40 3-6
MHz
Popular 8-bit
Microprocessor,
6500 transistors
Comparison of Microprocessors
8086 1978 16-
bit
1MB 40 5-8
MHz
Widely used in
PC/XT, 29000
transistors
23. 80186 1982 16-
bit
1MB 68 6 MHz Widely used in
PC/AT
80286 1983 16-
bit
16M
B
real,
4 GB
virtu
al
68 8 MHz Widely used in
PC/AT
80386 1986 32-
bit
4GB
real,
64TB
virtu
al
132
14X
14
PGA
20-33
MHz
Contains MMU
on chip
80486 1989 32-
bit
4GB
real,
64TB
virtu
al
168
17X
17
PGA
25-100
MHz
Contains MMU,
cache and FPU,
1.2 million
transistors
24. Microprocessor Year of
Invention
Word
Length
Memory
addressing
Capacity
Pins Clock Remarks
Pentium 1993 32-
bit
4GB
real,32-
bit
address,
64-bit
data bus
237
PGA
60-
200
Contains 2
ALUs,2
Caches
Pentium Pro 1995 32-
bit
64GB
real, 36-
bit
address
bus
387
PGA
150-
200
MHz
It is a data
flow
processor.
It contains
second
level cache
also,3.3 V
25. Microprocessor Year of
Invention
Word
Length
Memory
addressing
Capacity
Pins Clock Remarks
Pentium II 1997 32-
bit
64GB 240 400-
500
MHz
All
features
Pentium
pro plus
MMX
technology
,3.3 V, 7.5
million
transistors
Pentium III 1999 32-
bit
64GB 370
PGA
600-
1.3
MHz
Improved
version of
Pentium
II; 70 new
SIMD
instruction
s
26. Microprocessor Year of
Inventio
n
Word
Lengt
h
Memory
addressing
Capacity
Pins Clock Remarks
Pentium IV 2000 32-
bit
64GB 423
PGA
600-
1.3
GHz
Improved
version of
Pentium
III
Itanium 2001 64-
bit
64
address
lines
423
PGA
733
MHz-
1.3
GHz
64-bit
EPIC
Processor
PGA - Pin Grid Array
MMX - Multi Media extensions
EPIC - Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing
SIMD - Single Instruction Multiple Data
ALU - Arithmetic and Logic Unit
MMU - Memory Management Unit
FPU - Floating Point Unit