You've probably heard the acronym CPU lots of times when you went out hunting for a laptop or desktop computer to buy. Quite often, the type of CPU in the device will be mentioned as part of the specs ...

In your small business, you may not have enough resources to have a full-time technical support employee. That might make you the default tech support, but don't worry -- getting to know the inside of ...

Despite continuous improvements and incremental upgrades with each new generation, processors haven't seen any industry-shifting advancements in a long time. The transition from vacuum tubes to ...

As you probably know, processors – and most other digital technology – are made up of transistors. The simplest way to think of a transistor is as a controllable switch with three pins. When the gate ...

David Patterson, Sophie Wilson, and Steve Jobs have torched the PC business. Patterson along with Dave Ditzell co-authored the famous RISC paper documenting how simpler instruction sets could ...