The
Intel 8080 (
"eighty-eighty") was the second
8-bit microprocessor designed and manufactured by
Intel and was released in April 1974. It was an extended and enhanced variant of the earlier
8008 design, although without
binary compatibility. The initial specified clock frequency limit was 2
MHz, and with common instructions using 4, 5, 7, 10, or 11 cycles this meant that it operated at a typical speed of a few hundred thousand
instructions per second.