DEMP CS #08

What significant advancement in electronics occurred in 1947 at Bell Labs?

• A) Invention of the vacuum tube

• B) Development of the microprocessor

• C) Invention of the transistor

• D) Introduction of integrated circuits

Which innovation by Jack Kilby in 1958 revolutionized electronics manufacturing?

(a)  

• A) Transistor
• B) Microprocessor
• C) Vacuum tube
• D) Integrated circuit (IC)

What was the primary motivation for developing the Intel 4004 microprocessor in 1971?

• A) To power early personal computers

• B) To revolutionize telecommunications

• C) To create advanced gaming consoles

• D) To build calculators

What did Gordon Moore's observation in 1965, known as Moore's Law, state?

• A) The number of transistors on a chip doubles approximately every two years.

• B) The speed of microprocessors increases linearly over time.

• C) The cost of integrated circuits decreases exponentially.

• D) The size of vacuum tubes remains constant.

Which microprocessor introduced the x86 architecture and its 16-bit design?

• A) Intel 4004

• B) Intel 8080

• C) Intel 8086

• D) Intel 8008

What was the key advancement introduced by the Pentium series of microprocessors in 1993?

• A) Superscalar architecture

• B) 32-bit processing

• C) Reduced power consumption

• D) Compatibility with vacuum tubes

What is the fundamental difference between Complex Instruction Set Computers (CISC) and Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC)?

• A) CISC processors have more complex instructions than RISC processors.

• B) RISC processors have more registers than CISC processors.

• C) CISC processors have a smaller instruction set than RISC processors.

• D) RISC processors have more cache memory than CISC processors.

Which microprocessor architecture could address a memory system of 16M bytes?

• A) Intel 8086

• B) Intel 80286

• C) Intel 8080

• D) Intel 4004

at was the primary reason for the introduction of the 80286 microprocessor in 1983?

• A) To address the limitations of a 1M-byte memory system

• B) To replace the 8086 microprocessor

• C) To create a more energy-efficient microprocessor

• D) To focus on instruction simplification

Which innovation allowed the 8086 and 8088 microprocessors to replace smaller minicomputers across various applications?

• A) Instruction prefetching

• B) Increased clock speed

• C) Richer instruction sets

• D) Larger memory capacity