When we are introduced to the internals of a microprocessor, it is most likely that we will be shown something like one of the first generation of 8-bit ... home-made CPU using TTL logic chips ...

really — using discrete logic chips to scratch-build a computer that would probably compare unfavorably to an 80s era 8-bit machine in terms of performance. And yet they still forge ahead with ...

Not content with your new, 1.4-billion-transistor Ivy Bridge processor ... window), so that you can follow along. Hovey's 8-bit ALU (arithmetic logic unit) is constructed completely out of ...

This was Intel's first 8-bit microprocessor and the ancestor of the x86 processor ... PMOS logic. For technical reasons, the resistor is actually implemented with a transistor. The diagram below ...