Usually this means finding ways to fit more transistors on a microprocessor chip.
How fast is the fastest microprocessor chip, now and in the future?
But over time these will be reduced to single chips and ultimately to software handled by the central microprocessor chip.
Personal computers were born in the 1970s, shortly after the development of the microprocessor chip.
Its microprocessor chips serve as the silicon "brains" in more than 80 percent of the world's personal computers.
The i960 was the first microprocessor chip that could execute multiple instructions in parallel.
Intel controls 85 percent of the market for microprocessor chips.
In some cases, emulation features are built directly into new microprocessor chips.
The motherboard's main job is to hold the computer's microprocessor chip and let everything else connect to it.
A.Computer scientists have been developing such microprocessor chips for several years.