EE 331
Instructor: Dr. Gheith Abandah
The History of Intels Microprocessors
Advances in the IC manufacturing technologies can summarize this history. These
advances provide smaller and faster transistors, higher integration, and higher pin counts.
Year
Processor
ALU
Width
4040
4 bits
4 bits
4 K nibbles
Higher
8008
8 bits
8 bits
16 KB
50 KIPs
48 instrs., RTL
8080
8 bits
8 bits
64 KB
500 KIPs
More instrs., TTL
MITS Altair 8800 1st PC, BASIC interpreter by Bill Gates, Assembler by Digital Research Corp.
8085
8 bits
8 bits
64 KB
769 KIPs
246 instrs., higher
integration.
There exists ~ 700 million 8085 and Z-80 processors.
8086
16 bits
16 bits
1 MB
2.5 MIPs
>20,000 div, mul, CISC,
more registers
8088
16 bits
8 bits
1 MB
Low cost
IBM adopted 8088 for its PCs, creating two computer giant companies.
80186
16 bits
16 bits
1 MB
Higher integration
80286
16 bits
16 bits
16 MB
8 MHz, 4
MIPs
80386
32 bits
32 bits
4 GB
With MMU
80386SX
32 bits
16 bits
16 MB
80486
32 bits
32 bits
4 GB
50 MHz
8-KB cache, integrated
numeric coprocessor
Pentium
32 bits
64 bits
4 GB
60, 66
16-KB cache, dual integer
MHz
units
Pentium Pro
32 bits
64 bits
64 GB
150, 166
3 IUs, 1 FPU, 8-KB I-L1,
MHz
8-KB D-L1, 256-KB L2,
up to 3 IPC
Pentium II
32 bits
64 bits
4 GB
MMX
Pentium III
32 bits
64 bits
4 GB
500 MHz
SIMD
Pentium 4
32 bits
64 bits
4 GB
1400 MHz Hyper-pipelined
64
Itanium
64 bits
733 MHz
EPIC, Intel with HP
64 bits Up to 2
1986
1989
1993
1995
1997
1999
2001
2001
50 KIPs
Notes
Later
1971
1973
1974
1977
1983
4 K nibbles
Speed
4004
1979
1981
4 bits
Memory
Size
1971
1978
4 bits
Data
Bus
45 instrs., RTL, used in
controllers and calculators
PC Busses
Name
PC Bus
ISA
EISA
VESA
Micro-channel
PCI
Width
8 bits
16-bits
32 bits
32 bits
16 or 32 bits
32 or 64 bits
Speed
4.77 MHz
8 MHz
8 MHz
P clock
60 or 66 MHz
Notes
PC, XT
(Industry Standard Arch.) AT, BW = 6.5 MB/s
(Extended ISA) 386DX, 486, BW = 25 MB/s
Local bus
IBM PS/2, BW 20 & 120 MB/s
(Peripheral Control Interconnect), Pentium & Pentium
Pro.