microprocessor
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Counterpoint Research projects that shipments of smartphone systems on a chip, or SoCs, the bundles of microprocessors and other components that power various phone functions, will fall 7% this year.
From Barron's
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.
“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.
After the breakup of the Soviet Union, it was revealed that their microprocessor technology was several generations behind ours.
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.
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