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The microprocessor is an integrated circuit that elaborates information in the form of digital signals. Not to be confused with a microcontroller, which embeds many additional devices to control embedded systems.
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How can we say an Intel i7 processor is a microprocessor?
There's a major misunderstanding there: an i7 doesn't have RAM, ROM or BIOS memory - they're provided by the motherboard.
Actually, as was noted in a comment, the i7 does have a small amount of RAM …
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Can an old pentium III processor still be useful?
Building your own motherboard for a Pentium III will be a difficult, if not downright impossible, task.
At least you will need to interface to RAM and a chipset that provides peripherals (e.g. I/O). …
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Is the Raspberry Pi a microcontroller or a motherboard?
Neither: it can be considered a single-board computer where the main CPU is a system-on-chip.