FORTY years ago, a young technician by the name of Gordon Moore determined the early development of microelectronics, which even today defines the strategy of the semi-conductor industry, worth 200 ...

This is part of a series of posts about the circumstances leading up to the launch of the Altair 8800 in the January, 1975 issue of Popular Electronics. In my last post, I talked about the dawn of the ...

The processors in today’s computers have grown tremendously in performance, capabilities and complexity over the past decade. Clock speed has skyrocketed, and size has dwindled, even as the number of ...

40 years after Intel patented the first microprocessor, BBC News talks to one of the key employees who made that world changing innovation happen. Ted Hoff saved his own life, sort of. Deep inside ...

In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...

Since the days of the mainframe and the desktop pc, processor technology has changed continually to address users' needs. Now, with mobile computing becoming a dominant market, processor innovation ...

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 ...

In this except from Discover’s debut issue in 1980, U.S. car makers were loading their new models with those "clever microprocessors." Reeling from the invasion of small, fuel-efficient foreign cars, ...

When building a new desktop or choosing a laptop, it's reasonable to want to pick out the fastest CPU to give you the maximum possible performance. That said, you should choose your next processor ...