Not content with your new, 1.4-billion-transistor Ivy Bridge processor? Maybe it runs too hot, or lacks the polygon-pushing powers that you require? Well, I've got just the thing for you: How about ...

Some of the most interesting projects in computing are the "Just for fun," builds that individuals dream up. A year and a half ago, we met the Megaprocessor, a room-scale CPU implementation with each ...

LAPIS Semiconductor, a ROHM group company, offers an 8 bit low power micron controller with voice output function. Equipped with a 8-bit CPU nX-U8/100, the ML610Q380/383/384/385 is a high-performance ...

Freescale Semiconductor has attempted to shake up the 8-bit microcontroller market with its first 32-bit MCU which is fully design and pin compatible with its 8-bit devices. This is a bid to encourage ...

Hi everyone! Have you heard of the brand new 8-bit computer built from (mostly) off-the-shelf parts called Commander X16 made by a team of people under The 8-Bit Guy (David Murray)? If so what are ...

Every year there is a stampede in the popular industry press to predict that this will be the year that 8-bit microcontroller sales will finally stop growing. Recently, the wide availability of ...

This article presents the aspects of building USB3.0 application using low performance 8-bit microcontroller taking an 8051 derivative as an example. First it gives a technical overview of the USB ...

Will Strauss, president of Forward Concepts, said Freescale's move is part of a larger trend among microcontroller and DSP vendors to protect investments in software development by offering compatible ...

Half a century after the microprocessor was conceived, Ellie Gibson has recreated one of the first computers that incorporated the technology. With the help of classic computer collector John ...