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PowerPC IBM PowerPC 601 Microprocessor Computer Game Platform Motorola  
PowerPC is a RISC microprocessor architecture created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM. Originally intended for personal computer, PowerPC CPUs have since become popular embedded and high-performance processors as well. PowerPC...
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Freescale Semiconductor
x86-32 (32 bit Intel x86) Registry procesorů x86      
IA-32 (Intel Architecture, 32-bit), often generically called x86 or x86-32, is the instruction set architecture of Intel's most commercially successful microprocessor. It is a 32-bit extension, first implemented in the Intel 80386, of the earlier 16...
X86-64     Advanced Micro Devices  
x86-64 is a 64-bit superset of the x86 instruction set architecture. Because the x86-64 instruction set is a superset of the x86 instruction set, all instruction in the x86 instruction set can be executed by central processing unit (CPUs) that...
Intel Corporation
Intel Architecture-64 The Intel Itanium architecture      
In computing, IA-64 (short for Intel Architecture-64) is a 64-bit processor architecture developed cooperatively by Intel Corporation and Hewlett-Packard (HP), and implemented in the Itanium and Itanium 2 processors. The goal of IA-64 was to produce...
SPARC Sun UltraSPARC II Microprocessor File Format    
SPARC (from Scalable Processor Architecture) is a RISC microprocessor instruction set architecture originally designed in 1985 by Sun Microsystems. SPARC is a registered trademark of SPARC International, Inc., an organization established in 1989 to...
DEC Alpha DEC Alpha AXP 21064 Microprocessor Computer Game Platform    
The DEC Alpha, also known as the Alpha AXP, is a 64-bit RISC microprocessor originally developed and fabricated by Digital Equipment Corp (DEC). It was designed to replace the 32-bit VAX processor. It was used in a variety of DEC workstations and...
ARM architecture A Conexant ARM processor used mainly in routers Computer Game Platform    
The ARM architecture (previously, the Advanced RISC Machine, and prior to that Acorn RISC Machine) is a 32-bit RISC processor architecture developed by ARM Limited that is widely used in embedded designs. Because of their power saving features, ARM...
MIPS architecture A MIPS R4400 microprocessor made by Toshiba Computer Game Platform    
MIPS (originally an acronym for Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages) is a RISC microprocessor architecture developed by MIPS Technologies. By the late 1990s it was estimated that one in three RISC chips produced were MIPS-based...
PA-RISC family HP PA-RISC 7300LC Microprocessor   Hewlett-Packard  
PA-RISC is a microprocessor architecture developed by Hewlett-Packard's Systems & VLSI Technology Operation. As the name implies, it is an implementation using a RISC (R'educed Instruction Set Computing) design, where the PA stands for 'Precision...
IBM System z An IBM z890 mainframe Computer IBM  
IBM System z, or earlier IBM eServer zSeries, is a brand name designated by IBM to all its mainframe computer. In 2000, IBM rebranded the existing System/390 to IBM eServer zSeries with the e depicted in IBM's red trademarked symbol. But because no...
Computer Product Line
SuperH      
The SuperH (or SH) is brandname of a certain microcontroller and microprocessor architecture. The SuperH is fundamentally a 32-bit load/store RISC architecture found in a large number of embedded system. The SuperH processor core family was first...
68k        
The Motorola 680x0/m68k/68k/68K is a family of 32-bit CISC microprocessor CPU chips and was the primary competition for the Intel x86 family of chips in personal computers of the 1980s and early 1990s. Although no modern desktop computers are based...
X86 An Intel Pentium 4 chip; early Northwood build Computer Game Platform VIA Technologies  
The generic term x86 refers to the instruction set of the most commercially successful CPU architecture in the history of personal computing. It is used in processors from Intel, AMD, VIA, and others, and derived from the model numbers of the first...
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RCA 1802 RCA CDP1802CD microprocessor   RCA  
The RCA (CDP)1802 (aka RCA COSMAC*, COSMAC 1802) is an 8-bit CMOS microprocessor (µP) introduced by RCA in early 1976, and currently being manufactured by Intersil Corporation. The 1802 has an architecture quite different from most other 8-bit...
Motorola 68040 A Motorola 68040 Microprocessor      
The Motorola 68040 is a microprocessor from Motorola, released in 1990. It is the successor to the 68030 and is followed by the 68060 (the 68050 project having been abandoned.) In keeping with general Motorola naming, the 68040 is often referred to...
Motorola 68030 Motorola 68030 microprocessor      
The Motorola 68030 is a 32-bit microprocessor in Motorola's 68000 family. Released in 1987, the 68030 was the successor to the Motorola 68020, and was followed by the Motorola 68040. In keeping with general Motorola naming, this CPU is often...
Motorola 68000 Pre-release XC68000 chip manufactured in 1979      
The Motorola 68000 is a 16/32-bit CISC microprocessor core designed and marketed by Freescale Semiconductor (formerly Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector). Introduced in 1979 as the first member of the successful 32-bit m68k family of...
Freescale DragonBall Motorola DragonBall EZ Microprocessor      
Motorola/Freescale Semiconductor's DragonBall, or MC68328, is a microcontroller design based on the famous 68000 core, but implemented as an all-in-one low-power solution for handheld computer use. It was designed by Motorola in Hong Kong. The...
Freescale ColdFire        
The Freescale ColdFire is a 68k architecture microprocessor manufactured for embedded system development by Freescale Semiconductor (formerly the semiconductor sector of Motorola). The ColdFire instruction set is "assembly source" compatible (by...
QUICC        
QUICC is the abbreviation of QUad Integrated Communications Controller. The original QUICC was the 68k-based Motorola 68360. It was followed by the PowerPC-based PowerQUICC, PowerQUICC II, and PowerQUICC III. It has many types of interfaces built...
Freescale CPU32        
The Freescale 683XX (formerly Motorola 683XX) is a family of compatible microcontroller that use a Freescale 68000-based CPU core. The family was designed using a Hardware Description Language, making the parts synthesizable, and amenable to...
Motorola 68060 A Motorola 68060 Microprocessor      
The Motorola 68060 is a 32-bit microprocessor from Motorola, released in 1994, and is the successor to the Motorola 68040. The 68060 is the highest performance 680x0 family processor available. The 68060 (usually referred to simply as the 060,...
Freescale 68LC040 El procesador Motorola 68LC040      
The 68LC040 is a low cost version of the Motorola 68040 microprocessor with no FPU. This makes it less expensive and draw less power. Although the CPU now fits into a feature chart more like the 68020, it continues to include the 040's cache and...
Freescale 68EC040        
The 68EC040 is a version of the Motorola 68040 microprocessor intended for embedded controllers. It differs from the 68040 in that it has no FPU or MMU. This makes it less expensive and draw less power. Note: In keeping with general Motorola...
Motorola 68EC030        
The 68EC030 is a microprocessor from Motorola. It is a lower cost version of the Motorola 68030, the difference between the two being that the 68EC030 does not have an on-chip memory management unit. The 68EC030 was used as the CPU of one model of...
Motorola 68EC020 MC68EC020 A1200      
The 68EC020 is a microprocessor from Motorola. It is a lower cost version of the Motorola 68020, the difference between the two being that the 68EC020 only has a 24-bit address bus, rather than the 32-bit address bus of the full 68020, and thus is...
Motorola 68020 XC68020, a prototype of the 68020      
The Motorola 68020 is a 32-bit microprocessor from Motorola, released in 1984. It is the successor to the Motorola 68010 and is succeeded by the Motorola 68030. The 68020 (usually just referred to as the '020, pronounced oh-two-oh or oh-twenty)...
Motorola 68012        
The Motorola MC68012 processor is a 16/32-bit microprocessor from the early 1980s. It is an 84-pin PGA version of the Motorola MC68010. The memory space was extended to 2GB (causing the same issue as the 68020 for any programs using the high byte of...
Motorola 68010        
The Motorola MC68010 processor is a 16/32-bit microprocessor from Motorola, released in 1982. In common with the Motorola 68000 naming convention, it is usually just referred to as the 010 (pronounced oh-one-oh). It fixes several small flaws in the...
Motorola 68008        
The Motorola 68008 is an 8/16/32-bit microprocessor made by Motorola. It is a version of the Motorola 68000 with an 8-bit external data bus, as well as a smaller address bus. The original 68000 had a 24-bit address bus and a 16-bit data bus. These...