Ken Shirriff on Nostr: In 1989, Intel introduced the 486 processor, improving the performance of the 32-bit ...
In 1989, Intel introduced the 486 processor, improving the performance of the 32-bit 386. Unlike the 386, the 486 has an on-chip 8 KB cache and a floating-point unit. The 486 has over a million transistors.
I took this die photo and labeled it with the main functional blocks.
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