The Microprocessor Age - Intel 4004 - world's first microprocessor - a 4-bit microprocessor-programmable controller on a chip.

- instruction set contained only 45 instructions. - execute instructions at the slow rate of 50 KIPs (kilo-instructio ns per second). - Intel 4040 - an updated version of the earlier 4004. - The 4040 operated at a higher speed, although it lacked improveme nts in word width and memory size. - Intel 8008 - an extended 8-bit version of the 4004 microprocessor. - addressed an expanded memory size (16K bytes) and contained addit ional instructions(a total of 48) - Intel 8080 - the first of the modem 8-bit microprocessors that introduced in 1 973 - Motorola Corporation introduced its MC6800 microprocessor. - execute 10 times faster than 8008 - from 20 s (50,000 instructions per second) on an 8008-based system to only 2.0 s(500,000 instructions per second) on an 8080-based system. - addressed four times more memory(64K bytes) than the 8008 (l6K by tes). - Incidentally, the first personal computer, the MITS Altair 8800, was released in 1974. - Intel 8085 - updated version of the 8080. - it was to be the last 8-bit, general-purpose microprocessor devel oped by Intel. - advantages of the 8085 were its internal clock generator, interna l system controller, and higher clock frequency. - it took only 1.3 s (769,230 instructions per second)