microprocessor

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Back then, IBM certainly wouldn’t have hired weird longish-haired geeks like Bill Gates and Paul Allen, who were working with chintzy little microprocessors that paled in comparison with IBM’s mighty mainframes.

From The Wall Street Journal

“These are not very strategic components, but there are hundreds of them, small microprocessors in the lock systems, climate control, speedometers or whatever,” Volvo Chief Executive Håkan Samuelsson told The Wall Street Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal

After the breakup of the Soviet Union, it was revealed that their microprocessor technology was several generations behind ours.

From The Wall Street Journal

For the next two decades, AMD was consistently playing catch-up to Intel, another spawn of Fairchild that created the microprocessors that were used in most personal computers starting in the 1980s.

From The Wall Street Journal

The company released memory chips before creating the world’s first commercially available microprocessor and other innovations that made it possible for companies to build more affordable computers.

From Los Angeles Times