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At one time computers were huge bulky machines which weighed many tons, and operated using old time "vacuum tubes." The invention of the silicon transistor in the early 1940's revolutionized the electronics industry. During the 1970s U.S. companies pioneered new manufacturing techniques called Very Large Scale Integration [VLSI]. It permitted the production of very compact electronic devices. Instead of one transistor, many (in fact, millions on a modern microprocessor) were integrated into a single silicon wafers that could be cheaply mass produced. Commonly referred to as microchips. they led to the development of the microprocessor, a CPU contained on a single microchip sometimes simply called a "computer chip". Pictured below is a highly enlarged photograph (with false coloring) of a Pentium chip manufactured by Intel. The microprocessor plugs into a socket which connects it to the motherboard's external bus. A
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Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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