Word: microprocessor
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...waste tons of time deciding whether to buy a PC (one that uses an Intel microprocessor; often called an IBM-compatible or clone) or a Macintosh. The truth is today there really isn't much difference between the two. PCs used to be super-cheap; but now the price war in the personal computer industry has forced Apple to roll out several affordable models. Macs formerly were the only computers that were user-friendly; but a PC equipped with Microsoft Windows or IBM's OS/2 2.1 is just as easy...
...Electrical Engineering students with an interest in computer application and they will tell you how much they're dying for the opportunity to design a microprocessor...
...this into some perspective, consider Intel's newly released Pentium chip. This successor to the company's popular 80486 microprocessor contains an astonishing 3.1 million transistors on a die about the size of a quarter...
Back in C.S. 148, soon everyone realized it was simply unrealistic to try to build a microprocessor. We were further discouraged when told that last year some people did undertake such an endeavor, but the team just "disintegrated after a while," according to the instructor, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Woodward Yang, who has taught the course since last spring...
...battle between the two strategies appears to be won by the RISC side, as evidenced by the proliferation of RISC systems and RISC features included in the Pentium and the Motorola 68050, a chip still in development. Despite all the heat in the microprocessor industry, most users need not be concerned since many of the new systems will be able to run software written for rival machines...