E238 Information Systems 12 2008
Central Processing Units (CPUs)
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Central Processing Units (cpu)
There is significant difference between RISC chips and CISC chips.

Chip makers Intel, Cyrix, Motorola and AMD all make both types of chips.

HardwareCentral is one excellent source of tutorials.


Chip Maker CISC chips Used in RISC chips Used in

Best resource: Intel Chips

8086

80186 (16-bit 1978?)

80286 (1982)

80386 (1988)

embedded

80486

80586 Pentium

PII

PIII

P4 3GHz

Intel® Centrino™

IBM PC (1983)

high-end PCs

Cyrix

6x86 PR200+ “M1”

(I don't know)

(Tell me where to find info.)

6502

65C816

68000

68020

68030

68040

Apple II, Commodore Pet

Apple IIGS

Apple Macintosh

Apple Macintosh

Apple Macintosh

Apple Macintosh

PowerPC G3

iMac
Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

2.1GHz AMD Athlon™ XP 2600+

AMD Athlon™ XP 2700+

AMD Athlon™ XP 2800+

high-end PCs

AMD 29000

AMD 29030

Apple LaserWriter 8500

PDAs

Z80: Sorcerer, microbee, Osborne, Dick Smith's System 80, TRS 80

Z8000

??

Alpha 21164

MIPS R12000

ARM chip architecture