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The following is a list of notable CPU architectures
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Embedded CPU architectures
- ARM's ARM Architecture
- Atmel's AVR architecture
- Microchip's PIC architecture
- Intel's 8051 architecture
- Zilog's Z80 architecture
- Western Design Center's 65816 architecture
- Hitachi's SuperH architecture
- Axis Communications' ETRAX CRIS architecture
- Power Architecture (formerly PowerPC)
Microcomputer CPU architectures
- pre-x86
- x86
- Motorola's 6800 and 68000 architectures
- MOS Technology's 6502 architecture
- Zilog's Z80 architecture
- Power Architecture (formerly IBM POWER and PowerPC)
- The Advanced RISC Machines' (originally Acorn) ARM and StrongARM/XScale architectures
Workstation/Server CPU architectures
- DEC's Alpha architecture
- HP's PA-RISC architecture
- Power Architecture (formerly IBM POWER and PowerPC)
- Intel's Itanium architecture (formerly IA-64)
- MIPS Computer Systems Inc.'s MIPS architecture
- Sun Microsystems's SPARC architecture
Mini/Mainframe CPU architectures
- Burroughs large systems architecture (1961-present) currently supported in the Unisys ClearPath/MCP series.
- IBM's System/360, System/370, ESA/390 and z/Architecture (1964-present)
- DEC's PDP-11 architecture, and its successor, the VAX architecture
- UNIVAC 1100/2200 series architecture (currently supported by Unisys ClearPath IX computers)
- MIL-STD-1750A - the U.S.'s military standard computer
- AP-101 - the space shuttle's computer
Mixed core CPU architectures
- IBM's Cell architecture (a general purpose architecture that uses a POWER4 based core and 8 RISC based co-processors)
- CAS's Loongson 3
- Parallax Propeller, a 160 MIPS multicore microcontroller with eight 32-bit RISC cores.
Historically important CPUs
- EDSAC - the first practical stored-program computer
- Apollo Guidance Computer, used in the moon flights
- MIL-STD-1750 An early CPU, standardized for military and aerospace embedded systems.
- MIPS R4000 - the first microprocessor to use a 64-bit datapath
- Intel 4004 - the first microprocessor
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