The start of the much-anticipated death of 16-bit processors is upon us. Because of insufficient forecasted demand, March 30, 2007, is the final date that Intel will accept orders for its MCS51, ...

Building a functioning 16-bit processor or CPU inside Microsoft Excel, with its own memory, output, and custom assembly language, is an impressive - if not entirely useful - feat. This is because ...

“We always hoped that something like this could be built – now we know that it can be built,” says Max Shulaker, professor at MIT and corresponding author on this latest report. Carbon nanotubes have ...

Forty years ago today, electronics and semiconductor trade newspaper Electronic News ran an advertisement for a new kind of chip. The Intel 4004, a $60 chip in a 16-pin dual in-line package, was an ...

Increment and decrement. They sound like simple functions. But even the simplest functions can get quite complex in a microprocessor design. Ken Shirriff has written up a great blog post about his ...

Cambridge Consultants has released a new 16-bit RISC microprocessor IP core. Cambridge Consultants has released a new 16-bit RISC microprocessor IP core, which it will feature at the Design & Reuse IP ...

Cambridge UK and Boston MA, December 1, 2005--- Cambridge Consultants has released a new 16-bit RISC microprocessor IP core, which it will feature at the Design & Reuse IP-SoC conference in Grenoble, ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Global consumption of customer-specific, cell-based designs containing at least one 16-bit processor is expected to decrease from $374.9 million in 2003 to $363.5 million in 2008, ...

ARC 501 Processor Core Enables 8- and 16-bit Processor Users to Upgrade to 32-bit Performance Without Sacrificing Code Size SAN JOSE, Calif., December 15, 2003 – ARC International (LSE: ARK), a ...

CAMBRIDGE, UK – March 13, 2012– ARM today announced the ARM® Cortex™-M0+ processor, the world's most energy-efficient microprocessor. The Cortex-M0+ processor has been optimized to deliver ultra ...