In the 1970s CPUs still had wildly different approaches to basic features, with the Intel 8086 being one of them. Whereas the ...

Central Processing Unit (CPU) is the heart and brain of every computer. Every single operation that you do with your computer is processed in CPU. The performance of your computer is based on its ...

Every computing device from simple toys to large business systems have an essential component called the central processing unit. The CPU performs calculations, makes logical comparisons and moves ...

Tyrone Iras Marhguy is not your everyday student. From his dorm room, the young academic achiever has pulled off something ...

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 ...

We see a lot of discrete-logic computer builds these days, and we love them all. But after a while, they kind of all blend in with each other. So what’s the discrete logic aficionado to do if they ...

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 ...

The CPU and memory work together to process instructions and run programs. There are different types of memory – volatile and non-volatile. The Arithmetic and Logic Unit (ALU) is where the CPU ...