what is the most powerful microprocessor in the world?
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PA-8000 - HP\n\nHighlights of the PA-8000 include the following:\nRecord-breaking transaction processing performance --> 700 tps; \nRecord-breaking SPEC performance; --> 360+ SPECint92, >550+ SPECfp92; \nFull binary compatibility with all prior and future PA-RISC implementations; \n"Intelligent Execution" technology in the microarchitecture; and \nFull 64-Bit microprocessor. \n\nhttp://bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/CIC/announce/1995/pa8000.html
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Try the links below for specifics.  There are just too many different processors and their variants out there to give you a list here, but these links may help you find what you're looking for.
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Guys.. there is nothing like best... it all depends upon 'your objective' ie your requirements decide the best. Intel offers CPUs in two brands - pentium and celeron. if you've more money, then you could go for pentium. celeron is low-cost processor and it does effective than pentium. Another one is AMD's Athlon its all so cheap and faster. My opinion falls on Athlon.
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Core 2 Duo is far superior.  The Pentium 4, though it does have the capability of hyperthreading, it is still just a single core 32 bit processor.  The Core two duo has two 64 bit processing engines, so it can process more instructions at one time.
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More directly.\n\nhttp://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.html\n\nTo save you some time I would say Athlons are for the most part are a better CPU. It is a much more efficent and effective CPU with low energy consumption/heat dissipation, high preformance per watt ratings, nativley desined for dual core and 64bit capacities, hypertransport bus technology. The pentium 4 has been a dog from conception, and the netburst technology from which its based is on its way out. Its in fact intel thats playing catch up with athlon.
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In November, 1971, a company called Intel publicly introduced the world's first single chip microprocessor, the Intel 4004 (U.S. Patent #3,821,715), invented by Intel engineers Federico Faggin, Ted Hoff, and Stan Mazor. After the invention of integrated circuits revolutionized computer design, the only place to go was down -- in size that is. The Intel 4004 chip took the integrated circuit down one step further by placing all the parts that made a computer think (i.e. central processing unit, memory, input and output controls) on one small chip. Programming intelligence into inanimate objects had now become possible.
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it really depends on what you are going to do with the micro. if its fairly basic stuff, then you can use 8 bit micro's, otherwise you need to use much faster and powerful ones like the powerQuicc.\n\nI have only dealt with the intel based 8 bit micro's, and in that type there are several manufacturers like atmel, philips, cygnal, etc.. Keil makes a pretty good C compiler for them too.
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is that a complete question?\n\nwhich proc?  intel, amd, power pc?\n\nthe x86s each have power management for clocks (Intel SpeedStep, for example)...\n\ncare to expand the question?
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Well that is a little bit vague, bit I will go with fastest/most powerful as what you meant.  That would probably be the Radeon X1950XTX, but that will change on Wednesday when the GeForce 8800GTX comes out, it will blow everything else away.
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exactly I am not sure, but a microprocessor(mp) is a very small transistor only capable of doing spcific tasks eith the help of other mp's. while a microcontroller(mc) is capable of handling small functions. The difference lies in the word I used for the performance. A task would be carrying information to another mp for processing. A funtion would be gathering, assessing, transporting, and processing  the same data.
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Advanced Micro Devices
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There is the P4 which has many different versions such as the Pentium M (mobile cpu - centrino), the core duo, the Xeon, the standard P4 which ranges from a 400mhz bus to an 800mhz bus, and then the Pentium D which is the dual core CPU.\n\nThe very top chip I think they have on the market right now is the Intel Pentium Extreme Edition which is a dual core chip with 2x2mb of cache and a 1024 bus.\n\nAs for the AMD, there is the sempron which is AMD's answer to the celeron (but better IMHO) and then the Athlon 64, which is a pretty awesome chip, but not as awesome as the AMD Athlon 64 X2 which is the dual core version of the AMD line.  The opteron is the name of AMD's server chip line, and they do come in both single and dual core.  Then, of course, is the Turion CPU which is the mobile chip.\n\nI like both chips, I usually sell more AMD than INTEL chips.  You can pick up a dual core AMD Athlon 3800+ X2 for around $300 and it runs sweet when paired up with a gig or two of RAM.\n\nHope this helps!
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Pentium Xeon is mainly for servers and costs a lot, some use it for 3D rendering. Pentium M uses centrino mobile technology mainly in laptops. The best Pentium Processor is the Intel® Pentium® processor Extreme Edition 955, having two cores @ 3.46Ghz. But the high price of over $1000 scares a lot of customers.\n\nTomshardware Guide compares all kinds of CPUs, here's a link to one of their charts where they list the CPUs according to performance: http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.html
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Very-large-scale integration (VLSI) of systems of transistor-based circuits into integrated circuits on a single chip first occurred in the 1980s as part of the semiconductor and communication technologies that were being developed.\n\nThe first semiconductor chips held one transistor each. Subsequent advances added more and more transistors, and as a consequence more individual functions or systems were integrated over time. The microprocessor is a VLSI device.\n\nThe first "generation" of computers relied on vacuum tubes. Then came discrete semiconductor devices, followed by integrated circuits. The first Small-Scale Integration (SSI) ICs had small numbers of devices on a single chip – diodes, transistors, resistors and capacitors (no inductors though), making it possible to fabricate one or more logic gates on a single device. The fourth generation consisted of Large-Scale Integration (LSI), i.e. systems with at least a thousand logic gates. The natural successor to LSI was VLSI (many tens of thousands of gates on a single chip). Current technology has moved far past this mark and today's microprocessors have many millions of gates and hundreds of millions of individual transistors.\n\nAs of mid-2004, billion-transistor processors are not yet economically feasible for most uses, but they are achievable in laboratory settings, and they are clearly on the horizon as semiconductor fabrication moves from the current generation of 90 nanometer (90nm) processes to the next 65nm and 45nm generations.\n\nAt one time, there was an effort to name and calibrate various levels of large-scale integration above VLSI. Terms like Ultra-large-scale Integration (ULSI) were used. But the huge number of gates and transistors available on common devices has rendered such fine distinctions moot. Terms suggesting more-than-VLSI levels of integration are no longer in widespread use. Even VLSI is now somewhat quaint, given the common assumption that all microprocessors are VLSI or better.
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The 6800xt is by far the strongest card of the lot. No comparsion. However, you might be looking for a older 6800 as they no longer make them in AGP. The 9600xt only comes in AGP. \n\nRadeon X1600 Pro\n500 MHz core\n 780 MHz mem\n 128-bit\n 12.48 GB/s\n 12 pixel pipelines\n 9.0c\n \nRadeon 9600 XT\n 500 MHz\n 600 MHz\n 128-bit\n 9.6 GB/s\n 4 pixel pipelines\n 9.0\n\nGeForce 6800\n 325 MHz Core\n 700 MHz mem\n 256-bit\n 22.4 GB/s\n 12 PPs\n 9.0c\n\nThe 6800 will give you the best performance for the dollar. It operates on a PCI-E interface and most importantly operates on a 256 bit system allowing it to almost double its memory performance speed of the x1600 pro.\n\nThe x1600 pro isn't a bad card, I have one, but if you have the PCI-E slot, get the 6800.
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Just about everything.  But mainly games and high-end software like video editing, photo editing... anything that requires lots of horsepower.  The more cache a CPU has the more instruction it can store close (on) the CPU and it will excute everything faster.  L1 cache is the fastest and the AMD Athlon 64 3700+ (San Diego) has 64KB+64KB (128KB) of L1 cache and 1MB of L2 cache.  This varies among processors, Semprons have less and Athlons have more.  The same applies to Intel with the Pentium 4 and Pentium Ds, they have more and the Celerons have less.\n\nIt does matter.  See how slow a Sempron 3100+ is compared to a Athlon 3000+, despite the Sempron having a faster core, you will find that the Athlon 3000+ is actually and performs tasks faster than the Sempron.\n\nThis link might help you, http://www.computerworld.com/networkingtopics/networking/lanwan/story/0,10801,44333,00.html
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Athlon is faster than pentium.