Word: microprocessor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...full-time programmer for Transmeta Corp., a top-secret, high-tech start-up backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The combination of Allen and Torvalds has fueled wild speculation about what Transmeta might be up to in its Santa Clara, Calif., skunk works. Is it building a new microprocessor that will compete with Intel's x86 chip set? Is it using, as some seem to believe, technology borrowed from visiting aliens to develop hush-hush projects for the government? Torvalds delights in the rumors and will neither confirm nor deny anything...
Mounted on the circuit board is a microprocessor, which is housed in a protective container and connected to rows of gold-plated pins...
Inside the microprocessor package is the chip itself. This tiny square of silicon is packed with transistors that process instructions and data for the computer...
...microprocessor acts as the brain of the computer, and it doles out instructions for every component...
...data cache, where the data to be processed are stored until needed by other parts of the microprocessor...