{"id":714,"date":"2013-09-18T12:19:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T12:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/?page_id=714"},"modified":"2013-09-18T12:30:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T12:30:39","slug":"texas-instruments","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/?page_id=714","title":{"rendered":"Texas Instruments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial,Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Arial,Helvetica;\">Texas Instruments was locked in a race with Intel to create the first microprocessor. By most accounts Intel won with the 4004, but there are a few die hard TI fans who say the TMS1000 was first, because it was the first \u201ccomputer on a chip\u201d and that the 4004 was just a calculator chip.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Texas Instruments followed the Intel 8080 with the 4-bit TMS1000. So, while Intel was leading the industry in microprocessors, TI led with this industry unique design &#8220;a computer on a chip&#8221;, specifically designed for control and automation purposes. The 1000 was the first MCU (MicroComputer Unit) , which is an MPU (MicroProcessor Unit) with other support chips (such as RAM, ROM, counters, timers, I\/O interfaces) integrated on to the same silicon chip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Instruments was locked in a race with Intel to create the first microprocessor. By most accounts Intel won with the 4004, but there are a few die hard TI fans who say the TMS1000 was first, because it was the first \u201ccomputer on a chip\u201d and that the 4004 was just a calculator chip.\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/?page_id=714\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":718,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-714","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","nodate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/714\/revisions\/715"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}