TMS34010
Sign in to savethumb|The followup to the TMS34010, the TMS34020
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Technical details
- Uses
- Arcade video games
- Video accelerators
- Game console
- TMS34020
- Notes
- References
- External links
thumb|The followup to the TMS34010, the TMS34020
The TMS34010, developed by Texas Instruments and released in 1986, was the first programmable graphics processor integrated circuit. While specialized graphics hardware existed earlier, such as blitters, the TMS34010 chip is a microprocessor which includes graphics-oriented instructions, making it a combination of a CPU and what would later be called a GPU.
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