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The '''4-bit''' [[computer architecture]] is a [[microprocessor]] architecture that has a [[datapath]] width or a highest [[operand]] width of 4 bits or a [[nibble]]. These architectures typically have a matching [[register file]] with [[registers]] width of 4 bits.
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The '''4-bit''' [[computer architecture]] is a [[microprocessor]] architecture that has a [[datapath]] width or a highest [[operand]] width of 4 bits or a [[nibble]]. These architectures typically have a matching [[register file]] with [[registers]] width of 4 bits and 8-bit wide addresses.
  
 
== Industry ==
 
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Most 4-bit [[microprocessor]]s were used almost exclusively in calculators and toys.
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Most 4-bit [[microprocessor]]s were used almost exclusively in calculators and toys. 4 bits was a logical choice for many calculators that used [[binary coded decimal|BDC]] numbers representation.
  
 
== 4-bit microprocessor ==
 
== 4-bit microprocessor ==

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The 4-bit computer architecture is a microprocessor architecture that has a datapath width or a highest operand width of 4 bits or a nibble. These architectures typically have a matching register file with registers width of 4 bits and 8-bit wide addresses.

Industry

Most of the first microprocessors during the early 1970s had 4-bit word length. Both the Intel4004 and the 4040 were 4-bits. The world's first single-chip microprocessor by Texas Instruments, the TMS1000, was also a 4-bit CPU. 4-bit word were proven to be very limiting and by 1974 there was a shift to larger architectures such as 8- and 12-bit architecture architectures.

Applications

Most 4-bit microprocessors were used almost exclusively in calculators and toys. 4 bits was a logical choice for many calculators that used BDC numbers representation.

4-bit microprocessor

4-bit microcontrollers

4-bit discrete chips