The address latch is just like registers A, B and C.

(See the section on 'edge-triggered latches' in How Boolean Logic Works for details.)

Registers A, B and C are simply latches made out of flip-flops.

The market is getting more and more competitive. Many more companies build processors for other electronics uses, like cars and smart home products.

Samsung may also be working on its own proprietary processor designs. In 2020, Apple introduced its M-series chips, which are replacing the Intel chips Apple was using for its Macintosh computers. Nvidia, famous for its graphics chips, also manufactures CPUs. AMD competes with Intel in the PC processor market, but also does big business in graphics processor chips that are popular with PC gamers.

While Intel still has a large portion of the market, it has more than its fair share of competitors. Celeron is aimed at entry-level computer users, and Atom processors are better for mobile devices and devices that are part of the Internet of Things. In addition, Intel offers the Celeron and Atom processor lines. As of this writing, the company still makes Pentium and Core CPUs for computers, but higher-performance PCs and servers may use the Xeon chip. Intel's product range has widened substantially from the 1970s. An Intel Core i9 processor can have up to eight cores, each of which can execute any piece of code that ran on the original 8088, only about 6,700 times faster! Each core can handle multiple threads of instructions, allowing the computer to manage tasks more efficiently.

All generation of microprocessor