microprocessor

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It has led to restrictions on the export of the latest microprocessors, for instance, despite objections from American manufacturers.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

Counterpoint Research projects that shipments of smartphone systems on a chip, or SoCs, the bundles of microprocessors and other components that power various phone functions, will fall 7% this year.

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

For the next two decades, AMD was consistently playing catch-up to Intel, another spawn of Fairchild that created the microprocessors that were used in most personal computers starting in the 1980s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

“The transistor, arguably the most important technical innovation of the 20th century, was invented at Bell Labs. And what are your devices made of? Transistors! Intel microprocessors have billions of ’em!”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2024

His mother, a hippie by orientation, worked as a legal secretary; his stepfather was a physicist and engineer who designed machines that made silicon wafers, which computer microprocessors are built on.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel