After some searching, researchers learned that Microchip Technology Inc., a manufacturer of programmable microprocessors, would sell the laboratory just the guts of the microprocessor without the shell and wires.
The founders and US-based PC maker Apple saw potential in one corner of Acorn's laboratory: a team of engineers designing simple microprocessors known as RISCs.
A sequence of six laboratories culminate with an apparatus that involves the microprocessor control of a floating ping-pong ball.
Hach DR/2010 Spectrophotometer (Hach Company, Loveland, CO, USA) is a microprocessor-controlled, single-beam instrument for colorimetric testing in the laboratory or the field.
The laboratory planned to have the robot itself serve as the microprocessor's shell.
In a cooperative research and development agreement announced yesterday, I.B.M. and the government laboratory said they would work together mainly on the software required to solve complex scientific problems on a supercomputer with thousands of microprocessors linked together.
Dr. Brown led the legendary Xerox laboratory in the late 1980's and early 90's, when researchers there pioneered the idea of pervasive computing, in which connected microprocessors are embedded into virtually every office tool.
instead of a traditional microprocessor.
The microprocessor itself was introduced in 1970.
Without the microprocessor, however, it was hard to implement.
