Notable CPU architectures

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The following is a list of notable CPU architectures

Contents 1 Embedded CPU architectures 2 Microcomputer/PC CPU architectures 3 Workstation/Server CPU architectures 4 Mini/Midrange/Mainframe CPU architectures 5 Mixed Core Architectures 6 Historically important CPUs

[edit] Embedded CPU architectures

• ARM's ARM Architecture
• Atmel's AVR architecture
• Microchip's PIC architecture
• Intel's 8051 architecture
• Zilog's Z80 architecture
• Western Design Center's 65816 architecture
• Hitachi's SuperH architecture
• Axis Communications' ETRAX CRIS architecture
• Power Architecture (formerly PowerPC)

[edit] Microcomputer/PC CPU architectures

• Intel's x86 and the related IA-16 and IA-32 architectures
  • x86-64 with AMD's AMD64 architecture and Intel's Intel 64 version of it
• Motorola's 6800, 6809, and 68000 architectures
• MOS Technology's 6502 architecture
• Zilog's Z80 architecture
• Power Architecture (formerly IBM POWER and PowerPC)
• The Advanced RISC Machines' (originally Acorn) ARM and StrongARM/XScale architectures

[edit] Workstation/Server CPU architectures

• DEC's Alpha architecture
• HP's PA-RISC architecture
• Power Architecture (formerly IBM POWER and PowerPC)
• Intel IA-64 architecture
• MIPS Computer Systems Inc.'s MIPS architecture
• Sun Microsystems's SPARC architecture

[edit] Mini/Midrange/Mainframe CPU architectures

• Burroughs large systems architecture (1961-present) currently supported in the Unisys ClearPath/MCP series.
• IBM System/360, AS/400 and System z architectures (1964-present)
• DEC's PDP-11 architecture, and its successor, the VAX architecture
• UNIVAC 1100/2200 series architecture (currently supported by Unisys ClearPath IX computers)
• MIL-STD-1750A - the U.S.'s military standard computer
• AP-101 - the space shuttle's computer

[edit] Mixed Core Architectures

• IBM's Cell architecture (a general purpose architecture that uses a POWER4 based core and 8 RISC based co-processors)
• CAS's Godson
• Parallax Propeller, a 160 MIPS multicore microcontroller with eight 32 bit RISC cores.

[edit] Historically important CPUs

• EDSAC - the first practical stored-program computer
• Apollo Guidance Computer, used in the moon flights
• MIPS R4000 - the first microprocessor to use a 64-bit datapath
• Intel 4004 - the first microprocessor