We recently looked at the origins of the integrated circuit (IC) and the calculator, which was the IC’s first killer app, but a surprise twist is that the calculator played a big part in the invention ...

If the introduction of the Intel 8008 led to a variety of interesting devices that can be considered the first early PCs, it was its successor?the Intel 8080 microprocessor?that really became the ...

SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwired - Oct 23, 2014) - Soft Machines Inc., a Silicon Valley-based semiconductor startup company, today announced the Soft Machines VISC™ architecture. The VISC architecture is ...

The infamous quote "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home" by Digital Equipment Corporation founder Ken Olsen in 1977 is a perfect study of the prevailing corporate attitude ...

Armonk, NY and Tokyo, August 25, 2005 — IBM, Sony, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., (Sony and SCE together referred to as “Sony Group”) and Toshiba today ...

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 ...

Design and understanding of the computer system as a whole unit. Performance Evaluation and its role in computer system design; Instruction Set Architecture design, Datapath design and optimizations ...

STMicroelectronics has released details of a new architecture which it says will be the backbone for new members of its Structured Processor Enhanced Architecture, or SPEAr, family of embedded ...