English 1A A cheap upgrade for your old computer To those of you who have an Intel 8088 Microprocessor based computer, and want to buy a new machine but cannot afford it. There is an easy, inexpensive upgrade you can do to increase the performance of your old machine about 60%. (This is based on the Norton Utilities: SYSTEM INFO; computing and performance indexes). The upgrade can be done by replacing the Intel 8088 Microprocessor with a new NEC V20 Microprocessor. I first read about
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DOST STARBOOKs: The Philippines’s First Digital Science Library What is STARBOOKS? STARBOOKS or the Science & Technology Academic and Research‐Based Openly‐Operated Kiosks intends to serve as information access portals in key areas in the Philippines. People in the community can have digital access to the scientific information physically available at the Science and Technology Information Institute, the DOST Science and Technology Information Network of the Philippines (ScINET), Philippine eLib
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Intel Unveils Silverthorne By Sumner Lemo Http://www.pcworld.com/article/142130/intel_unveil_silverthorne.html Silverthorne is a newer and cheaper power saver processor for mobile phones in the Upcoming year. Silverthorne was founded on the Pentium Pro. Silverthorne is a great Value of performance and power efficiency. Silverthorne struck as one of the best performance and power efficiency chip out on The market today, Via Technologies is releasing a micro processor
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In 1994, Intel released a microprocessor that had a major flaw that they dismissed as simple and not likely to replicate very often while in use. The Pentium microprocessor, used in both the 486DX and Pentium CPUs both included a floating point unit, also known as a math coprocessor, which was used to help spreadsheet users. Floating point units used non-integers in their arithmetic methods instead of integers, much like the previous CPUs. FPUs made the arithmetic must faster and allowed for more
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“In June 1994, Intel engineers discovered a flaw in the floating-point math subsection of the Pentium microprocessor. Under certain data dependent conditions, low order bits of the result of floating-point division operations would be incorrect, an error that can quickly compound in floating-point operations to much larger errors in subsequent calculations. Intel corrected the error in a future chip revision, but nonetheless declined to disclose it. In October 1994, Dr. Thomas Nicely, Professor
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These interview questions test the knowledge of x86 Intel architecture and 8086 microprocessor specifically. 1. What is a Microprocessor? - Microprocessor is a program-controlled device, which fetches the instructions from memory, decodes and executes the instructions. Most Micro Processor are single- chip devices. 2. Give examples for 8 / 16 / 32 bit Microprocessor? - 8-bit Processor - 8085 / Z80 / 6800; 16-bit Processor - 8086 / 68000 / Z8000; 32-bit Processor - 80386 / 80486. 3. Why
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and how it was discovered: This flaw was discovered in 1994. Apparently Intel engineers found it but decided to keep it quiet until a professor, Dr. Thomas Nicely, discovered it and made it well known to the world, after not receiving a response from Intel on the matter. Intel’s response to the flaw: This incident actually helped make Intel a commonly unknown computer supplier to a household name. They responded with the Intel inside campaign, and becoming more user friendly in their business practices
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calculations. Found after he added a Pentium System to his computer group. Upon Further inspections and calculations, he contacted Intel with his results. Intel denied that there was a problem with their chips. When it became clear that their chips were flawed, and the accusations were true. Intel changed its policy, admitting that their chips were indeed defective. Intel agreed to replace the defective chips for free, but only if the uses could demonstrate that they needed and unflawed chip
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Intel case: Takeaways Question 1 • To capitalize on the first mover advantage by creating semiconductor memory chips that were sound in product design and technology. They were risk takers and strong believers in the product they design. • Semiconductor manufacturing is a complex process and involves huge investment in technology and equipment, which caused the production yields, a main driver of the manufacturing cost would fall initially with new processes. Yields would later improve with process
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the brain of all computers and many household and electronic devices. Multiple microprocessors, working together, are the "hearts" of datacenters, super-computers, communications products, and other digital devices. The first microprocessor was the Intel 4004, introduced in 1971. The 4004 was not very powerful; it was primarily used to perform simple mathematical operations in a calculator called “Busicom.” Just like microwaves or telephones, devices with microprocessors have become so integrated into
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