Intel 8080

The Intel 8080 was the additional 8-bit chip advised and bogus by Intel and was appear in April 1974. It was an continued and added alternative of the beforehand 8008 design, although after bifold compatibility. The antecedent defined alarm abundance absolute was 2 MHz and with accepted instructions accepting beheading times of 4, 5, 7, 10 or 11 cycles this meant a few hundred thousand instructions per second. The 8080 has sometimes been labeled "the aboriginal absolutely accessible microprocessor", admitting the actuality that beforehand microprocessors were acclimated for calculators and added applications.

The 8080 was implemented application non-saturated enhancement-load NMOS, ambitious an added +12 volt and a −5 volt supply.