Semiconductor chips are the building blocks of modern computation. From smartphones to the vast datacentres powering the ...

This week marks the 50th anniversary of Intel's 4004 — the first computer microprocessor. At its simplest, a computer only sees two things — zeros and ones — but you don't need electronics for that.

For Jim Scherrer, founder and president of the Compuseum, the 6502 microprocessor chip made Montgomery County’s MOS Technology the “vanguard of personal computing.” The 6502 chip was created by MOS ...

Security researchers have found new a new way to bypass existing hardware-based defenses for speculative execution in modern computer processors from Intel, AMD, and Arm. Today, the three CPU ...

The 1982 documentary Information Revolution explores the rapid transformation of society through the rise of microcomputers, satellites, and global data networks. It highlights how a tiny silicon chip ...

In human cells, there are about 20,000 genes on a two-meter DNA strand—finely coiled up in a nucleus about 10 micrometers in ...

Researchers from the University of Cambridge, U.K., have created a computer system that is powered by algae that harvests energy from the sun. About the size of a AA battery, the cell uses the ...

While the phrase “I built my own computer” might sound impressive to the uninitiated, anyone with an interest in modern computer hardware knows that there’s really not much to it: buy a case, a ...

[Joshua Coleman] likes to design his own computers. Sometimes, that means drawing up bus architectures, memory maps and I/O port pinouts. Other times, he can focus his efforts more on the general ...

Researchers named the vulnerability Spectre because the flaw was built into modern computer processors that get their speed from a technique called "speculative execution," in which the processor ...