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==History==

{{See also|Microprocessor chronology}}

The advent of low-cost [[computers]] on [[integrated circuits]] has transformed [[modern society]]. General-purpose microprocessors in [[personal computer]]s are used for computation, text editing, [[multimedia|multimedia display]], and communication over the [[Internet]]. Many more microprocessors are part of [[embedded system]]s, providing digital control over myriad objects from appliances to automobiles to [[cellular phone]]s and industrial [[process control]]. Microprocessors perform binary operations based on [[Boolean logic]], named after [[George Boole]]. The ability to operate computer systems using Boolean Logic was first proven in a 1938 thesis by master's student [[Claude Shannon]], who later went on to become a professor. Shannon is considered "The Father of Information Theory". In 1951 [[Microprogramming]] was invented by [[Maurice Wilkes]] at the [[ University of Cambridge]], UK, from the realisation that the central processor could be controlled by a specialised program in a dedicated [[ROM]].<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Wilkes | first1 = M. V. | title = The Growth of Interest in Microprogramming: A Literature Survey | doi = 10.1145/356551.356553 | journal = ACM Computing Surveys | volume = 1 | issue = 3 | pages = 139–145 | year = 1969 | s2cid = 10673679 | doi-access = free }}</ref> Wilkes is also credited with the idea of symbolic labels, macros and subroutine libraries.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sir Maurice Wilkes, The Father Of Computing, Dies |website=Silicon UK |date=3 December 2010 |url=https://www.silicon.co.uk/workspace/sir-maurice-wilkes-the-father-of-computing-dies-aged-97-14967|access-date=28 November 2023}}</ref>

Following the development of [[MOS integrated circuit]] chips in the early 1960s, MOS chips reached higher [[transistor density]] and lower manufacturing costs than [[bipolar junction transistor|bipolar]] [[integrated circuits]] by 1964. MOS chips further increased in complexity at a rate predicted by [[Moore's law]], leading to [[large-scale integration]] (LSI) with hundreds of [[transistors]] on a single MOS chip by the late 1960s. The application of MOS LSI chips to [[computing]] was the basis for the first microprocessors, as engineers began recognizing that a complete [[computer processor]] could be contained on several MOS LSI chips.<ref name="ieee">{{cite journal|last1=Shirriff|first1=Ken|date=30 August 2016|title=The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors|url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-surprising-story-of-the-first-microprocessors|journal=[[IEEE Spectrum]]|publisher=[[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers]]|volume=53|issue=9|pages=48–54|doi=10.1109/MSPEC.2016.7551353|access-date=13 October 2019|s2cid=32003640|url-access=subscription|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171124080014/http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/the-surprising-story-of-the-first-microprocessors|archive-date=2017-11-24}}</ref> Designers in the late 1960s were striving to integrate the [[central processing unit]] (CPU) functions of a computer onto a handful of MOS LSI chips, called microprocessor unit (MPU) chipsets.

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[[Multiprocessing]] concepts for multi-core/multi-cpu configurations are related to [[Amdahl's law]].

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