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05 - CPU Interesting facts and trivia

 1. The first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004, was introduced in 1971. True or False.
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  True

  False

 2. What did one of the first intel processors actually do?

  It could add and subtract up to 4 billion bits at a time and powered the calculations that led to the atomic bomb.

  It was just a model -couldn't actually do anything

  Not much -- it could only add and subtract four bits at a time -- it powered one of the first portable calculators.

  A lot - it could power video games, 3d DVDs and powered the very first robotic arm which operated on the moon

 3. Out of what material are computer chips made?

  Bronze

  Silicon

  Gold

  Silver

 4. Much of the microprocessor-producing industry is located in the San Francisco Bay Area in Southern California and has earned the nickname of "Silicon Valley." True or False?
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  False

  True

 5. The width of the smallest wire on a computer chip is typically measured in:

  microns (Note: human hair is about 100 microns thick)

  centimeters

  millimeters

  meters

 6. Computer chip designers create language instructions that the microprocessor reads. What translates the words from the instructions into bit patterns the chip can understand?
Because humans aren't very good at remembering complex bit patterns, the _____________
translates semantic instructions developed by designers into a language the CPU can use.

  Binary-er

  CPUer

  Assembler

  Translator

 7. Jack Kilby was named as the father of processors. Engineers from the company __________________________ is building a first integrated circuit in 1958, teridir on an oscillator in a small band of germanium. Some pioneers in microelectronics, he later rece

  Microsoft

  Apple

  Texas Instruments

  IBM

 8. The CPU is often compared to the brain. The brain needs nutrients like oxygen and sugar for power; the computer needs ________ to keep working
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  electricity

  air

  carrots

  binary food

 9. In 2018 this company claims to have produced a super powerful processor (see video below)

  Bard

  AMD

  Intel

  Apple

 10. DARPA, the US military’s R&D division, has been awarded a Guinness World Record for creating the world’s fastest solid-state chip, clocked at one terahertz — or __________ gigahertz

  10

  100

  1000

  1