microprocessor

English

Alternative forms

• micro-processor

Etymology

From micro- + processor.

Pronunciation

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Noun

microprocessor (plural microprocessors)

1. (computer hardware) The entire CPU of a computer on a single integrated circuit (chip).
   • 1992, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications, page 47:

     When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack.

   • 2007, Uwe Meyer-Baese, “Microprocessor Design”, in Digital Signal Processing with Field Programmable Gate Arrays, 3rd edition, Berlin: Springer Science+Business Media, →ISBN, page 537:

     When you think of current microprocessors (μPs), the Intel Itanium processor with 592 million transistors may come to mind. […] Clearly today's FPGAs will not be able to implement such a top-of-the-range μP with a single FPGA.

Related terms

• nanoprocessor

Translations

the entire CPU of a computer on a chip

• Belarusian: мікрапрацэ́сар m (mikrapracésar)
• Bulgarian: микропроцесор m (mikroprocesor)
• Catalan: microprocessador m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 微處理機 / 微处理机 (mei⁴ cyu² lei⁵ gei¹), 微處理器 / 微处理器 (mei⁴ cyu² lei⁵ hei³)

  Mandarin: 微處理機 / 微处理机 (zh) (wēichǔlǐjī, wéichǔlǐjī), 微處理器 / 微处理器 (zh) (wēichǔlǐqì, wéichǔlǐqì)

• Czech: mikroprocesor m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: mikroprosessori (fi), mikrosuoritin
• French: microprocesseur (fr) m
• Georgian: მიკროპროცესორი (miḳroṗrocesori)
• German: Mikroprozessor (de) m
• Greek: μικροεπεξεργαστής (el) m (mikroepexergastís)
• Gujarati: સૂક્ષ્મપ્રક્રમક (sūkṣmaprakramak)
• Hebrew: מעבד זעיר m (meabéd zaír), מיקרומעבד m (mikromeabéd), מעבד מיקרו m (meabéd mikro)
• Hindi: सूक्ष्मप्रक्रमक (sūkṣmaprakramak), माइक्रोप्रोसेसर (hi) (māikroprosesar)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Icelandic: örgjörvi m
• Indonesian: mikroprosesor (id), pengolah mikro
• Italian: microprocessore (it) m
• Japanese: マイクロプロセッサー (maikuropurosessā)
• Kazakh: микропроцессор (mikroprosessor)
• Korean: 마이크로프로세서 (ko) (maikeuropeuroseseo)
• Malay: mikropemproses
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mikroprosessor m

  Nynorsk: mikroprosessor m

• Polish: mikroprocesor (pl) m
• Portuguese: microprocessador (pt) m
• Romanian: microprocesor (ro) n
• Russian: микропроце́ссор (ru) m (mikroprocéssor)
• Sicilian: micruprucissuri m
• Spanish: microprocesador (es) m
• Swedish: mikroprocessor c
• Turkish: mikroişlemci (tr)
• Ukrainian: мікропроце́сор m (mikroprocésor)
• Welsh: microbrosesydd (cy)

See also

• integrated circuit
• microchip