Introduced by Intel on April 1, 1974, the 8080 had an 8-bit architecture, 6,000 transistors, clock speeds of 2 MHz, access to 64 KB of memory and 10 times the performance of the 8008. This processor’s original application was the Altair, one of the world’s first personal computers.
CPU terms, NEC V20
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