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Today, I would like to talk to you about why computers with basic hardware components are called fourth-generation computers. Many people may not know much about them. In order to make you understand better, the editor summarized the following contents for you. I hope you can get something from this article.

The computer with large-scale integrated circuit as the basic hardware component is called the fourth-generation computer; the fourth-generation computer refers to the computer made of large-scale integrated circuit and ultra-large-scale integrated circuit as the main electronic devices since 1970. another important branch is microprocessors and microcomputers based on large-scale and ultra-large-scale integrated circuits.

The fourth generation computer:

Large-scale and very large-scale integrated circuits appeared in 1967 and 1977 respectively. Computers assembled by large-scale and ultra-large-scale integrated circuits are called fourth-generation electronic computers. American ILLIAC-IV computer is the first computer to fully use large-scale integrated circuits as logic elements and memory, which marks the development of the computer has reached the fourth generation. In 1975, the American Amr Company developed the 470V/ 6 computer, and then the Japanese Fujitsu Company produced the M190 computer, which is a representative fourth generation computer. The University of Manchester in England began to develop the fourth generation machine in 1968. The ICL2900 computer was developed in 1974 and the DAP series computer was developed in 1976. In 1973, Siemens of Germany, International Information of France and Philips of the Netherlands jointly established Unified data. The Unidata7710 series machine is jointly developed.

The characteristics of four generations

The fourth generation computer refers to the computer made of large-scale integrated circuit (LSI) and ultra-large-scale integrated circuit (VLSI) as the main electronic devices since 1970. The 80386 microprocessor, for example, can integrate about 320000 transistors on a single chip with an area of about 10mm X l0mm.

Another important branch of the fourth generation computer is microprocessors and microcomputers developed on the basis of large-scale and ultra-large-scale integrated circuits.

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