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A microprocessor is a processor on an integrated circuit. Historically, the processors in computers could be made of hundreds or thousands of integrated circuits, or hundreds of thousands of discrete components. If anything, A microprocessor is a processor on one chip (or a family of very closely related chips).

Perhaps you were thinking of "Reduced Instruction Set Computer" (RISC) processors. These have an instruction set that is reduced to just the simplest instructions most commonly used by compilers for High Level Languages. But these need not be microprocessors. In fact the first computer now generally recognized by Computer Historians as having a RISC style processor was the CDC 6600, first introduced in 1964, its processor was composed of about 600,000 discrete gold doped NPN 2N709 silicon planar transistors and about 150,000 discrete gold doped silicon diodes, both made by Fairchild Semiconductor.

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