Microprocessors are getting so tiny that they’re actually small enough for quantum mechanics to start affecting their performance. That’s bad news for traditional computing, but it’s led to a ...

The Intel 8085 microprocessor was introduced 40 years back, and along with its contemporaries — the Z80 and the 6502 — is pretty much a dinosaur in terms of microprocessor history. But that doesn’t ...

The world's first commercially available microprocessor was launched 40 years ago today. Intel unveiled the 4004 on 15 November 1971, triggering the start of the digital revolution and enabling ...

Vintage microprocessors usually do something, be it just sitting in an idle loop, calculating something, or simply looking cool in a collector’s cabinet. [Lee] has come up with a vastly cooler use for ...

In 1958 the integrated circuit was developed by a young engineer at Texas Instruments named Jack St. Clair Kilby. He put together a few transistors and capacitors, linking them with a thin layer of ...

You've probably heard this story before, or perhaps lived it: Once upon a time, computers were huge. In the 1960s, a computer with the capability of, say, an Apple II, required a room full of heavy, ...

Processors Intel has rebranded the dusty old Core i5 10400 as the Core i5 110, presumably because it found a bunch of them tucked down the back of the couch Hardware An original Apple I PC just sold ...

Today, six-phase converters running at 1 MHz per phase, using 2-mΩ MOSFETS and 100-nH SMT inductors to deliver 150A at 1V are no longer a novelty. However, they are relatively inefficient and cannot ...