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What was the speed of the first commercial CPU?

What was the speed of the first commercial CPU?

  • 1 GHz
  • 100 kHz
  • 2 MHz
  • 5 Hz 

What was the speed of the first commercial CPU?

EXPLANATION

The initial clock speed of 4004 is 108 kHz, while the maximum clock speed is 740 kHz. Memory bus architecture is of the Harvard type (The Harvard architecture is a computer architecture with physically separate computer storage and signal pathways for instructions and data. The term originated from the Harvard Mark I relay-based computer, which stored instructions on punched tape and data in electromechanical counters). The 4004 used 4-bit bus for transferring, 12-bit addresses, 8-bit instructions and 4-bit data word.


Computer processor history
YearEvent
2002Intel released the Celeron 1.3 GHz with a 100 MHz bus and 256 kB of level 2 cache.
2003Intel Pentium M was introduced in March 2003.
2003AMD released the first single-core Opteron processors, with speeds of 1.4 GHz to 2.4 GHz and 1024 KB L2 cache, on April 22, 2003.

 

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