Interesting Facts About Processors

10 Interesting Facts About Processors

Just now Info Computer Information Technology n read an interesting article on 10 Interesting Facts About Processors. Honestly, it had never before so impressed interesting read for me personally. Gmn with my friends as well. Let's look at his facts.
1. More heat from the stove

•     Thermal power loss modern processors reach 125 watts per cm square which then generates heat. Meanwhile, electric stove heater plate ranged between 7 and 10 watts per cm square.

2. Processor Number One

•     Is the first Intel 4004 microprocessor. This processor is thrown into the market in 1971 for 200dollar and consists of over 2300 transistors. As a comparison, I7 Processor 45nm technology with transistors that have 731juta.

3. One billion transistors per Head

•     In 2010, the world's semiconductor industry will be producing one billion transistors for every resident of the world. According to data from the Semiconductor Industry Associaton (SIA), in 2005 this figure had reached 90juta transistors per resident.

4. Self-made CPU

•     An American, Steve Chamberlin, build a cpu with mengguunakan Logic-Module and about 1250 cable for the project "Big Mess of Wires" hers. Homemade processor with a clock of 2 MHz is at the heart of a simple computer. Needed 16 to complete.

5. Round objects with a costly downside.

•     Because of its shape round, a fifth area of ​​silicon wafers can not be used for chip production. There is no other alternative quadrangular. The dish just 775 micrometers thick are sliced ​​from large silicon crystals, drawn by a smelter and its shape is round.

6. Pioneer Era of Silicon

•     Jack Kilby was named as the father of processors. Engineers from the company Texas Instruments is building a first integrated circuit in 1958, teridir on an oscillator in a small band of germanium. Some pioneers in microelectronics, he later received the Nobel prize for Physics in 2000.

7. Contact to Outer Space

•     In the movie E.T. (1983), aliens build an interplanetary communicator device. Core of the toy "Speak & Spell" is used to communicate this is TMC 2081 from Texas Instruments and the Voice Synthesier first chips.

8. Venus: the world's fastest CPU

•     Today, Venus became the world tercepet processor. This is a prototype of the processor that can complete 128 Fujitsu computer operations per second. The ability of this prototype approximately 2.5 much faster than the latest Intel CPUs.

9. Error Inside

•     In 1994, pentium processor appeared on the market and it does not function normally. When the process of division, rounding errors (roundoff error) ranging from 5 decimal digits. As a result, Intel's spending of 475 million dollars over claims this processor.

10. Silicon scarcity Invisible

•     Silicon is the chemical most widely used after oxygen. Because good for bone growth, humans should not consume silicon at 30mg per day. According to Wikipedia, a good silicon obtained from the beer. (Not recommended for a beer you know, do not misunderstand yah .. haha