Intel iapx 432

The intel iapx 432 is a central processing unit designed by integrated circuit manufacturer intel. The CPU was first in 1981. It was not popular. John Dvorak, writing in PC Magazine in 2006 called it
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 * ''"...a processor that was one of the biggest flops in Intel’s history, but one of the more fascinating chips the company designed."


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According to Dvorak, while intel marketing department does not like to talk about the 432 it influenced other intel projects, particularly the intel 960.

The 432 was not a single chip computer. The CPU had separate chips. At its core were a decoder/sequencer and a execution unit. It also required an I/O controller and a bus interface unit and memory control unit.