COSMAC: The Long, True, and Never-ending Story of the World’s First CMOS Microprocessors, Part 1
RCA announced the world’s first CMOS microprocessor, the 8-bit CDP1801, in early 1975 and the first single-chip CMOS microprocessor, the CDP1802, in February 1976. Fifty years later, the CDP1802 is still available, still in production, and has been used as the core of many embedded designs…
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- T2COSMAC: The Long, True, and Never-ending Story of the World’s First CMOS Microprocessors, Part 1Semiconductor Engineering / SemiWiki / EE Times / EE Journal / Electronics Weekly