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 ...

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 ...

Microprocessors are wondrous devices: They integrate the brain of a computer onto a single electronic component. The computing power that once required a room full of equipment now fits onto a ...

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 ...

A microprocessor is a complex, programmable integrated circuit (IC) on a single chip that can execute instructions. This generally includes CPUs found in computers but also refers to the ...

Introduction to microprocessors, Uses assembly language to develop a foundation on the hardware which executes a program. Memory and I/O interface design and programming. Design and operation of ...

Everything indicates that at its next developers’ conference (WWDC), starting on June 22, Apple will announce it is no longer going to use Intel microprocessors and will start making its own, based on ...