... real-time graphics processing, the first IBM commercial computer. The technological component that made these things possible is the computer chip. The computer chip has made a significant advance on the technology of today's society. Prior to the invention of the computer chip, society was limited to doing complex mathematical equations with an abacus or a slide rule. Although these instruments are effective ... they are time consuming, thus they are rarely used. With the invention of the computer chip, the process of calculating mathematical and logical operations and storing memory wa...

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... disc, which was made from quartz. Scientists later managed to fit even more components on a single chip called a semiconductor. As a result, computers became ever smaller as more components were squeezed onto the chip. Another development included the use of an operating system that allowed machines to run many different programs at ... was down - in size, that is. Large-scale integration could fit hundreds of components onto one chip. By the 1980's, very large scale integration squeezed hundreds of thousands of components onto a chip. Ultra-large scale integration increased that number...

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... the less reliable vacuum tubes in computers. 1961 Bob Noyce (who later founded Intel Corporation) and Jack Kilby invent the first integrated circuit, which miniaturizes electronic circuitry into a single silicon chip. 1964 IBM introduces the System/360 computer. Configured as a system, it takes up nearly the same space as two tennis courts. 1965 Digital Equipment Corporation unveils its PDP-8, the ... first relatively small-sized computer (a "minicomputer"). 1969 A networking system called ARPANET is born; it is the beginning of the Internet. 1971 Intel introduces its 4004 processor (a "...

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... , significantly increases notebook battery life. The Pentium M is like no other processor. Based on a 0.13-micron design, the chip has 77 million transistors, many of which are taken up by the chip's megabyte of cache for the most-used instructions and data. This chip's real boost comes from its ability to predict what the next task will be and start on it or ... ...

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... out of transistors, which were smaller, less expensive, more reliable, and more efficient (Dolotta, 1985). In 1959, Robert Noyce, a physicist at the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, invented the integrated circuit, a tiny chip of silicon that contained an entire electronic circuit. Gone was the bulky, unreliable, but fast machine; now computers began to become more compact, more reliable and have more capacity. These ... , shifting registers, and counters, became available on tiny chips of silicon. In the 1980s very large scale integration, VLSI, in which hundreds of thousands of tra...

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... out of transistors, which were smaller, less expensive, more reliable, and more efficient (Dolotta, 1985). In 1959, Robert Noyce, a physicist at the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, invented the integrated circuit, a tiny chip of silicon that contained an entire electronic circuit. Gone was the bulky, unreliable, but fast machine; now computers began to become more compact, more reliable and have more capacity. These ... , shifting registers, and counters, became available on tiny chips of silicon. In the 1980s very large scale integration, VLSI, in which hundreds of thousands of tra...

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... out of transistors, which were smaller, less expensive, more reliable, and more efficient (Dolotta, 1985). In 1959, Robert Noyce, a physicist at the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, invented the integrated circuit, a tiny chip of silicon that contained an entire electronic circuit. Gone was the bulky, unreliable, but fast machine; now computers began to become more compact, more reliable and have more capacity. These ... , shifting registers, and counters, became available on tiny chips of silicon. In the 1980s very large scale integration, VLSI, in which hundreds of thousands of tra...

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... as printers, digital image lines and thin client machines. HP is teaming with Microsoft and Intel in producing new products for example; HP and Intel are working on a next generation chip to run other operating systems besides MS Windows. HP offers their computers via the Internet allowing for custom configuration but not to the same level of detail or options as ... Dell has aligned itself with Intel in offering bleeding edge and leading edge technology. For those who can afford it, Dell continues to offer high-end PCs with the fastest chip available from Intel. The high price tag inst...

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... out of transistors, which were smaller, less expensive, more reliable, and more efficient (Dolotta, 1985). In 1959, Robert Noyce, a physicist at the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, invented the integrated circuit, a tiny chip of silicon that contained an entire electronic circuit. Gone was the bulky, unreliable, but fast machine; now computers began to become more compact, more reliable and have more capacity. These ... , shifting registers, and counters, became available on tiny chips of silicon. In the 1980s very large scale integration, VLSI, in which hundreds of thousands of tra...

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... out of transistors, which were smaller, less expensive, more reliable, and more efficient (Dolotta, 1985). In 1959, Robert Noyce, a physicist at the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, invented the integrated circuit, a tiny chip of silicon that contained an entire electronic circuit. Gone was the bulky, unreliable, but fast machine; now computers began to become more compact, more reliable and have more capacity. These ... , shifting registers, and counters, became available on tiny chips of silicon. In the 1980s very large scale integration, VLSI, in which hundreds of thousands of tra...

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... awe. Still, up till 1972, computers were only available to schools, businesses, and wealthy people who could afford them. It was in 1972 when Intel came out with the 8008 chip and it was able to process 8-bits of data, which was enough to convey numbers and and letters of the alphabet. Then in 1977, competition started in the computer world ... ...

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... . A computer can be used with a grade one student to help that child learn new English vocabulary and the same machine can be used by a university student to write a sophisticated micro-chip program to control a robotic arm. Computers were introduced into postsecondary academic institutions at the beginning of the 1980s to identify the technical needs of tomorrow's society and to let students ... ...

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... brought about such advances as the mouse, and the icon, as major tools in computer interaction with Apple's new line of computers, the Macintosh. In 1986 Intel released the 386 chip -- the intermediate stage between the 8086 processor of 1980, and later the Pentium in 1994. The x86 line of processors issued in the current era of microprocessor dominance. With the ... ...

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