The Evolution of Processors

According to the editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, in 1957 he said that “I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won’t last out the year.” In the world of processors, ideas and beliefs have majorly developed in how these ideas come into practice and how they are used in the real world from when processors were starting to be used and how they have come to be in the near and far future. The evolution of processors has taken a long journey and that journey is still going on now. What processors are and how they operate has evolved and changed a lot throughout the years, but how they operate is just about the same. How processors operate, how they used to be and what they are now, and how processors will evolve in the future is what we must think about when we take this long journey into the mystery of the processor.

Processors were originally any machine that could do logic and arithmetic functions. Processors are essential for computers because it executes commands and runs computer programs in order for a computer to operate. These chips convert input data to output information in the Central Processing Unit or as it is normally called, CPU. The Central Processing Unit executes instructions stored by programs. The Central Processing Unit interacts with main memory to access data and instructions. Although processors manage a lot of data in the computer, they can only store the data temporarily. Every instruction that the Central Processing Unit processes is depicted by a sequence of numbers. The numbers that represent the demanded action are stored in the Central Processing Unit’s temporary memory once ...

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