believe we will see the title when thinking this is what technology? .It is nearly 30 years ago and technology behind the "coprocessor" What is technology? .I here first secrecy, to predict the Maximus technology NVIDIA's new release is the story behind the first one, then look up that part of a "coprocessor" in history, right? .Let's take a look at the year because of technical, cost and other reasons, there is a "coprocessor" and today we talk about the Maximus have anything to do with it. .

have the X87 coprocessor:

Intel 8086 processor deity

first appeared with the 8086 co-processor 8087

because of technical limitations of the seventies, generally only the math coprocessor chip made of another .for users to choose. .This benefit is to reduce the manufacturing costs, improve yields, reduce the rate of not more sensitive to the user's expense: they can not buy a math co-processor temporarily until the necessary time to buy a can back into the IC socket. .To cope with the originator of the X86 architecture processors 8086, 8087 co-processor in this case was born. .

1985 ?, Intel introduced the 80386 processor. .386 27 15,000 integrated transistors, more than the first general-purpose processor chip 4004 a hundred times. .386 is Intel's first 32-bit processor, 32-bit application environment today is the industry's mainstream, have to say this is a miracle. .

80386 387 processor and coprocessor

80386 processor at the time, but encountered a serious problem or an obstacle, that is handled Fengyun .device under the floating point capability is very low. .Unfortunately it is 386 times, PC For more highlights on the importance of the community, CAD, CAM, scientific computing, 3D aspects are becoming more popular, a lot of software must have the case of co-processors to work properly with the use of .. .So Intel 386 processor designed specifically for supporting a co-processor chip called the 387, the user can choose whether to buy the chip to enhance the computer's floating-point processing performance. .

387 co-processor connected in parallel with the 386 microprocessor, can constitute an efficient 386-processor system, and the lack of a separate co-processor chip 386 floating point capability is very limited. .387 relative to the 386 chip is actually a change is the addition of eight 80-bit floating point registers, and 16-bit control registers, status registers and flag registers. .This co-processor 387 to 386 processors on the expansion of over 70 instructions and a variety of data types, making the floating point processor 386 can also follow the IEEE754 floating point standard. .

coprocessor eventually disappear into the CPU FPU floating-point unit

1989 ?, Intel released the 486 processor, 486 processor is the most significant .It integrates a coprocessor, the coprocessor into the disappearance of the concept from within the CPU FPU (floating point processor). .

so coprocessor disappear in our line of sight, but "co-processors" have played a role in the existence is not to be forgotten. . .