AMULET is a series of microprocessors that implement the ARM processor architecture. Developed by the Advanced Processor Technologies group under the University of Manchester's computer science school (formerly the AMULET and PAL groups based at the same institution), AMULET is unique from other ARM implementations in that it is an asynchronous microprocessor, not making use of a square wave clock ...

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• AMULET microprocessor - List of AMULET Microprocessors

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Microprocessor, Microprocessor - History, Microprocessor - The first microprocessors, Microprocessor - Notable 8-bit designs, Microprocessor - 16-bit designs, Microprocessor - 32-bit designs, Microprocessor - 64-bit microchips on the desktop, Microprocessor - RISC, Microprocessor - Special-purpose microprocessors, Microprocessor - Design concepts, Microprocessor - Market statistics, Microprocessor - Common µPs; architectures, Microprocessor - Notes

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While the Cell chip can have a number of different configurations, the basic configuration is composed of one "Power Processor Element" ("PPE") (sometimes called "Processing Element", or "PE"), and multiple "Synergistic Processing Elements" ("SPE") [3]. The PPEs and SPEs are linked together by an internal high speed bus dubbed "Element Interconnect Bus" ("EIB"). Due to the nature of its applications, Cell is optimized towards single precision floati ...

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Cell microprocessor, Cell microprocessor - History, Cell microprocessor - Architecture, Cell microprocessor - Power Processor Element, Cell microprocessor - Synergistic Processing Elements SPE, Cell microprocessor - Element Interconnect Bus EIB, Cell microprocessor - Memory controller and I/O, Cell microprocessor - Broadband Engine, Cell microprocessor - Architecture compared, Cell microprocessor - Possible applications, Cell microprocessor - Blade server, Cell microprocessor - Console videogames, Cell microprocessor - Home cinema, Cell microprocessor - Software engineering, Cell microprocessor - Job queue, Cell microprocessor - Self-multitasking of SPEs, Cell microprocessor - Stream processing, Cell microprocessor - Open source software development, Cell microprocessor - Acronyms

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Cell is a microprocessor jointly developed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM. The Cell architecture is intended to be scalable through the use of vector processing. The first major commercial application of Cell is in Sony's upcoming PlayStation 3 game console. Cell microprocessor - History. In 2000, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Toshiba Corp., and IBM formed an alliance ("STI") to design and build the processor. The STI Design Center in Austin, Texas opened in March 2001. ^Including:

• Cell microprocessor - History
• Cell microprocessor - Architecture
• Cell microprocessor - Power Processor Element
• Cell microprocessor - Synergistic Processing Elements SPE
• Cell microprocessor - Element Interconnect Bus EIB
• Cell microprocessor - Memory controller and I/O
• Cell microprocessor - Broadband Engine
• Cell microprocessor - Architecture compared
• Cell microprocessor - Possible applications
• Cell microprocessor - Blade server
• Cell microprocessor - Console videogames
• Cell microprocessor - Home cinema
• Cell microprocessor - Software engineering
• Cell microprocessor - Job queue
• Cell microprocessor - Self-multitasking of SPEs
• Cell microprocessor - Stream processing
• Cell microprocessor - Open source software development
• Cell microprocessor - Acronyms

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A Complex Instruction Set Core (CISC) is a microprocessor instruction set architecture (ISA) in which each instruction can execute several low-level operations, such as a load from memory, an arithmetic operation, and a memory store, all in a single instruction. The term was coined in contrast to Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC). Before the first RISC processors were designed, many computer architects tried to bridge the "semantic gap" - to design instruction sets to support high-level programming languages by providing ...

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A central processing unit (CPU), or sometimes simply processor, is the component in a digital computer that interprets and executes instructions and data contained in software. CPUs provide the fundamental digital computer trait of programmability, and are one of the core components found in almost all modern microcomputers, along with primary storage and input/output facilities. In a similar vein, microprocessors are a type of CPU that is manufactured on an integrated circuit, often as a single-chip package. Since the m ...

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• Central processing unit - Discrete transistor and IC CPUs
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• Central processing unit - Design and implementation
• Central processing unit - Integer precision
• Central processing unit - Clock rate
• Central processing unit - Parallelism
• Central processing unit - Vector processors and SIMD
• Central processing unit - Notes

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Athlon is the brand name applied to a series of different x86 processors designed and manufactured by AMD. The original Athlon, or Athlon Classic, was the first seventh-generation x86 processor and, in a first, retained the initial performance lead it had over Intel's competing processors for a significant period of time. AMD has continued the Athlon name with the Athlon 64, an eighth-generation processor featuring AMD64 technology. Athlon - Athlon Classic. The Athlon made its debut on June 23, 1999. ...

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• Athlon - Athlon Classic
• Athlon - Athlon Thunderbird T-Bird
• Athlon - Athlon XP
• Athlon - Palomino
• Athlon - Thoroughbred T-Bred
• Athlon - Barton and Thorton
• Athlon - Mobile Athlon XP
• Athlon - Models
• Athlon - Athlon
• Athlon - Athlon XP

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Z8 can refer to: BMW Z8 - Car Zilog Z8 - Microprocessor Other related archivesBMW Z8, Zilog Z8

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AMD K6 - History. 1997 saw the arrival of AMD's K6 microprocessor. The significance of this particular microprocessor is that it was designed to fit into existing Pentium desktop designs. What is more it was marketed as being a product which could perform as well as its Intel Pentium equivalent but at a significantly lower price. The K6 had a considerable impact on the PC market and presented Intel with serious competition. AMD K6 - Background. The AMD K6 i ...

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• AMD K6 - Models
• AMD K6 - K6 Model 6
• AMD K6 - K6 Little Foot Model 7

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In 2003, about $44 billion (USD) worth of microprocessors were manufactured and sold. [1] Although about half of that money was spent on CPUs used in desktop or laptop personal computers, those count for only about 0.2% of all CPUs sold. About 55% of all CPUs sold in the world are 8-bit microcontrollers. Over 2 billion 8-bit microcontrollers were sold in 1997. [2] Less than 10% of all the CPUs sold in the world are 32-bit or more. Of all the 32-bit CPUs sold, about 2% are used in desktop or laptop personal computers, the rest a ...

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Microprocessor, Microprocessor - History, Microprocessor - The first microprocessors, Microprocessor - Notable 8-bit designs, Microprocessor - 16-bit designs, Microprocessor - 32-bit designs, Microprocessor - 64-bit microchips on the desktop, Microprocessor - RISC, Microprocessor - Special-purpose microprocessors, Microprocessor - Design concepts, Microprocessor - Market statistics, Microprocessor - Common µPs; architectures, Microprocessor - Notes

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Cell microprocessor - Blade server. IBM has already presented a blade server prototype based on two Cell processors, running the 2.6.11 Linux kernel. [9] The processors ran at 2.4–2.8 GHz. IBM expects to soon run them at 3.0 GHz, providing 200 GFLOPS single-precision floating point performance per CPU (or 400 GFLOPS per board). IBM also expects to arrange seven blades in a single rackmount chassis (simil ...

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Cell microprocessor, Cell microprocessor - History, Cell microprocessor - Architecture, Cell microprocessor - Power Processor Element, Cell microprocessor - Synergistic Processing Elements SPE, Cell microprocessor - Element Interconnect Bus EIB, Cell microprocessor - Memory controller and I/O, Cell microprocessor - Broadband Engine, Cell microprocessor - Architecture compared, Cell microprocessor - Possible applications, Cell microprocessor - Blade server, Cell microprocessor - Console videogames, Cell microprocessor - Home cinema, Cell microprocessor - Software engineering, Cell microprocessor - Job queue, Cell microprocessor - Self-multitasking of SPEs, Cell microprocessor - Stream processing, Cell microprocessor - Open source software development, Cell microprocessor - Acronyms

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In some ways the Cell system resembles early Seymour Cray designs in reverse. The famed CDC 6600 used a single very fast processor to handle the mathematical calculations, while a series of ten slower systems were given smaller programs to keep the main memory fed with data. In the Cell the problem has been reversed: reading the data is no longer the difficult problem due to the complex encodings used in industry; today the problem is efficiently decoding that data ...

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Cell microprocessor, Cell microprocessor - History, Cell microprocessor - Architecture, Cell microprocessor - Power Processor Element, Cell microprocessor - Synergistic Processing Elements SPE, Cell microprocessor - Element Interconnect Bus EIB, Cell microprocessor - Memory controller and I/O, Cell microprocessor - Broadband Engine, Cell microprocessor - Architecture compared, Cell microprocessor - Possible applications, Cell microprocessor - Blade server, Cell microprocessor - Console videogames, Cell microprocessor - Home cinema, Cell microprocessor - Software engineering, Cell microprocessor - Job queue, Cell microprocessor - Self-multitasking of SPEs, Cell microprocessor - Stream processing, Cell microprocessor - Open source software development, Cell microprocessor - Acronyms

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Due to the flexible nature of the Cell, there are several possibilities for the utilization of its resources: [11] Cell microprocessor - Job queue. The PPE maintains a job queue, schedules jobs in SPEs, and monitors progress. Each SPE runs a "mini kernel" whose role is to fetch a job, execute it, and synchronize with the PPE. See also:

Cell microprocessor, Cell microprocessor - History, Cell microprocessor - Architecture, Cell microprocessor - Power Processor Element, Cell microprocessor - Synergistic Processing Elements SPE, Cell microprocessor - Element Interconnect Bus EIB, Cell microprocessor - Memory controller and I/O, Cell microprocessor - Broadband Engine, Cell microprocessor - Architecture compared, Cell microprocessor - Possible applications, Cell microprocessor - Blade server, Cell microprocessor - Console videogames, Cell microprocessor - Home cinema, Cell microprocessor - Software engineering, Cell microprocessor - Job queue, Cell microprocessor - Self-multitasking of SPEs, Cell microprocessor - Stream processing, Cell microprocessor - Open source software development, Cell microprocessor - Acronyms

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List of Intel microprocessors - Intel 4004: 1st single-chip µP. Introduced November 15, 1971 Clock speed 740 kHz 0.06 MIPS Bus Width 4 bits (multiplexed address/data due to limited pins) PMOS Number of Transistors 2,300 at 10 μm Addressable Memory 640 bytes Program Memory 4K bytes World's first microprocessor Used in Busicom calculator Trivia: The original goal was to equ ...

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List of Intel microprocessors, List of Intel microprocessors - The 4-bit processors, List of Intel microprocessors - Intel 4004: 1st single-chip µP, List of Intel microprocessors - 4040, List of Intel microprocessors - The 8-bit processors, List of Intel microprocessors - 8008, List of Intel microprocessors - 8080, List of Intel microprocessors - 8085, List of Intel microprocessors - The 16-bit processors: Origin of x86, List of Intel microprocessors - 8086, List of Intel microprocessors - 8088, List of Intel microprocessors - 80186, List of Intel microprocessors - 80188, List of Intel microprocessors - 80286, List of Intel microprocessors - 32-bit processors: The non-x86 µPs, List of Intel microprocessors - iAPX 432, List of Intel microprocessors - i960 aka 80960, List of Intel microprocessors - i860 aka 80860, List of Intel microprocessors - XScale, List of Intel microprocessors - 32-bit processors: The 80386 range, List of Intel microprocessors - 80386DX, List of Intel microprocessors - 80386SX, List of Intel microprocessors - 80376, List of Intel microprocessors - 80386SL, List of Intel microprocessors - 80386EX, List of Intel microprocessors - 32-bit processors: The 80486 range, List of Intel microprocessors - 80486DX, List of Intel microprocessors - 80486SX, List of Intel microprocessors - 80486DX2, List of Intel microprocessors - 80486SL, List of Intel microprocessors - 80486DX4, List of Intel microprocessors - 32-bit processors: The Pentium I, List of Intel microprocessors - Pentium Classic, List of Intel microprocessors - Pentium MMX, List of Intel microprocessors - 32-bit processors: Pentium Pro II Celeron III M, List of Intel microprocessors - Pentium Pro, List of Intel microprocessors - Pentium II, List of Intel microprocessors - Celeron Pentium II-based, List of Intel microprocessors - Pentium III, List of Intel microprocessors - Pentium II and III Xeon, List of Intel microprocessors - Celeron Pentium III Coppermine-based, List of Intel microprocessors - Celeron Pentium III Tualatin-based, List of Intel microprocessors - Pentium M, List of Intel microprocessors - Intel Core, List of Intel microprocessors - Celeron M, List of Intel microprocessors - 32-bit processors: Pentium 4 range, List of Intel microprocessors - Pentium 4, List of Intel microprocessors - Xeon, List of Intel microprocessors - Pentium 4EE, List of Intel microprocessors - Pentium 4E, List of Intel microprocessors - Pentium 4F, List of Intel microprocessors - Pentium D, List of Intel microprocessors - The 64-bit processors: IA64 and EM64T, List of Intel microprocessors - Itanium, List of Intel microprocessors - Itanium 2, List of Intel microprocessors - EM64T, List of Intel microprocessors - Pentium EE 955

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As of 2005-06-23, patches enabling Cell support in the Linux kernel were submitted for inclusion by IBM developers [12]. Arnd Bergmann (one of the developers of the aforementioned patches) also described the Linux-based Cell architecture at LinuxTag 2005. [13] Both PPE and SPEs are programmable in C/C++ using a common API provided by libraries. According to Sony, a compiler, debugger, IDE, performance analyzer, and Cell emulator should be made av ...

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Cell microprocessor, Cell microprocessor - History, Cell microprocessor - Architecture, Cell microprocessor - Power Processor Element, Cell microprocessor - Synergistic Processing Elements SPE, Cell microprocessor - Element Interconnect Bus EIB, Cell microprocessor - Memory controller and I/O, Cell microprocessor - Broadband Engine, Cell microprocessor - Architecture compared, Cell microprocessor - Possible applications, Cell microprocessor - Blade server, Cell microprocessor - Console videogames, Cell microprocessor - Home cinema, Cell microprocessor - Software engineering, Cell microprocessor - Job queue, Cell microprocessor - Self-multitasking of SPEs, Cell microprocessor - Stream processing, Cell microprocessor - Open source software development, Cell microprocessor - Acronyms

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List of Intel microprocessors - 8008. Introduced April 1, 1972 Clock speed 500 kHz (8008-1: 800 kHz) 0.05 MIPS Bus Width 8 bits (multiplexed address/data due to limited pins) PMOS Number of Transistors 3,500 at 10 μm Addressable memory 16 kilobytes Typical in dumb terminals, general calculators, bottling machines Developed in tandem with 4004 ...

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List of Intel microprocessors, List of Intel microprocessors - The 4-bit processors, List of Intel microprocessors - Intel 4004: 1st single-chip µP, List of Intel microprocessors - 4040, List of Intel microprocessors - The 8-bit processors, List of Intel microprocessors - 8008, List of Intel microprocessors - 8080, List of Intel microprocessors - 8085, List of Intel microprocessors - The 16-bit processors: Origin of x86, List of Intel microprocessors - 8086, List of Intel microprocessors - 8088, List of Intel microprocessors - 80186, List of Intel microprocessors - 80188, List of Intel microprocessors - 80286, List of Intel microprocessors - 32-bit processors: The non-x86 µPs, List of Intel microprocessors - iAPX 432, List of Intel microprocessors - i960 aka 80960, List of Intel microprocessors - i860 aka 80860, List of Intel microprocessors - XScale, List of Intel microprocessors - 32-bit processors: The 80386 range, List of Intel microprocessors - 80386DX, List of Intel microprocessors - 80386SX, List of Intel microprocessors - 80376, List of Intel microprocessors - 80386SL, List of Intel microprocessors - 80386EX, List of Intel microprocessors - 32-bit processors: The 80486 range, List of Intel microprocessors - 80486DX, List of Intel microprocessors - 80486SX, List of Intel microprocessors - 80486DX2, List of Intel microprocessors - 80486SL, List of Intel microprocessors - 80486DX4, List of Intel microprocessors - 32-bit processors: The Pentium I, List of Intel microprocessors - Pentium Classic, List of Intel microprocessors - Pentium MMX, List of Intel microprocessors - 32-bit processors: Pentium Pro II Celeron III M, List of Intel microprocessors - Pentium Pro, List of Intel microprocessors - Pentium II, List of Intel microprocessors - Celeron Pentium II-based, List of Intel microprocessors - Pentium III, List of Intel microprocessors - Pentium II and III Xeon, List of Intel microprocessors - Celeron Pentium III Coppermine-based, List of Intel microprocessors - Celeron Pentium III Tualatin-based, List of Intel microprocessors - Pentium M, List of Intel microprocessors - Intel Core, List of Intel microprocessors - Celeron M, List of Intel microprocessors - 32-bit processors: Pentium 4 range, List of Intel microprocessors - Pentium 4, List of Intel microprocessors - Xeon, List of Intel microprocessors - Pentium 4EE, List of Intel microprocessors - Pentium 4E, List of Intel microprocessors - Pentium 4F, List of Intel microprocessors - Pentium D, List of Intel microprocessors - The 64-bit processors: IA64 and EM64T, List of Intel microprocessors - Itanium, List of Intel microprocessors - Itanium 2, List of Intel microprocessors - EM64T, List of Intel microprocessors - Pentium EE 955

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List of AMD microprocessors - 2nd source 1979–91. (second-sourced x86 processors produced under contract with Intel) 8086 8088 Am286 (2nd-sourced 80286, so not a proper Amx86 member) List of AMD microprocessors - Amx86 series 1991–95. Am386 (1991) Am486 (1993) Am5x86 (a 486-class µP) (1995) List of AMD microprocessors - ...

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List of AMD microprocessors, List of AMD microprocessors - AMD-originated architectures, List of AMD microprocessors - Am2900 series 1975, List of AMD microprocessors - 29000 29K 1987–95, List of AMD microprocessors - x86 architecture processors, List of AMD microprocessors - 2nd source 1979–91, List of AMD microprocessors - Amx86 series 1991–95, List of AMD microprocessors - K5 series 1995, List of AMD microprocessors - K6 series 1997–2001, List of AMD microprocessors - K7 series 1999–2005, List of AMD microprocessors - K8 series 2003–, List of AMD microprocessors - K9 series, List of AMD microprocessors - K10 series, List of AMD microprocessors - Detailed x86-µP release lists

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List of AMD Opteron microprocessors - SledgeHammer 130 nm. List of AMD Opteron microprocessors - Venus 90 nm. List of AMD Opteron microprocessors - Troy Athens 90 nm. Troy: Opteron 2xx Athens: Opteron 8xx ...

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List of AMD Opteron microprocessors, List of AMD Opteron microprocessors - Single-core Opteron, List of AMD Opteron microprocessors - SledgeHammer 130 nm, List of AMD Opteron microprocessors - Venus 90 nm, List of AMD Opteron microprocessors - Troy Athens 90 nm, List of AMD Opteron microprocessors - Dual-core Opteron, List of AMD Opteron microprocessors - Denmark 90 nm, List of AMD Opteron microprocessors - Italy Egypt 90 nm

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List of AMD Duron microprocessors - Duron Spitfire Model 3 180 nm. List of AMD Duron microprocessors - Duron Morgan Model 7 180 nm. List of AMD Duron microprocessors - Duron Applebred Model 8 130 nm. ...

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List of AMD Duron microprocessors, List of AMD Duron microprocessors - Desktop processors, List of AMD Duron microprocessors - Duron Spitfire Model 3 180 nm, List of AMD Duron microprocessors - Duron Morgan Model 7 180 nm, List of AMD Duron microprocessors - Duron Applebred Model 8 130 nm, List of AMD Duron microprocessors - Mobile processors, List of AMD Duron microprocessors - Mobile Duron Spitfire Model 3 180 nm, List of AMD Duron microprocessors - Mobile Duron Morgan Model 7 180 nm, List of AMD Duron microprocessors - Notes

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List of AMD Sempron microprocessors - Sempron Thoroughbred-B Socket A 130 nm. List of AMD Sempron microprocessors - Sempron Barton Socket A 130 nm. List of AMD Sempron microprocessors - Sempron Paris Socket 754 130 nm. List of AMD Sempron microprocessors - Sempron Palermo Socket 754 90 nm. List of AMD Sempro ...

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List of AMD Sempron microprocessors, List of AMD Sempron microprocessors - Desktop processors, List of AMD Sempron microprocessors - Sempron Thoroughbred-B Socket A 130 nm, List of AMD Sempron microprocessors - Sempron Barton Socket A 130 nm, List of AMD Sempron microprocessors - Sempron Paris Socket 754 130 nm, List of AMD Sempron microprocessors - Sempron Palermo Socket 754 90 nm, List of AMD Sempron microprocessors - Sempron Palermo Socket 939 90 nm, List of AMD Sempron microprocessors - Mobile processors, List of AMD Sempron microprocessors - Mobile Sempron Dublin Socket 754 130 nm Desktop replacement 62W TDP, List of AMD Sempron microprocessors - Mobile Sempron Dublin Socket 754 130 nm Low power 25W TDP, List of AMD Sempron microprocessors - Mobile Sempron Georgetown Socket 754 90 nm Desktop replacement 62W TDP, List of AMD Sempron microprocessors - Mobile Sempron Sonora Socket 754 90 nm Low power 25W TDP, List of AMD Sempron microprocessors - Notes

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