Computers’ amazing abilities to entertain people, help them work, and even respond to voice commands are, at their heart, the results of decades of technological development and innovation in ...

Over the years the leading microprocessor company, Intel, has introduced a steady stream of new microprocessor designs: the 286, 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4, and more ...

The chip industry faces a pivotal moment as hardware-side exploits cannot simply be fixed with software updates. Current chip engineering standards may need to be overhauled Computers’ amazing ...

After years of tackling numerous design and manufacturing challenges, MIT researchers have built a modern microprocessor from carbon nanotube transistors, which are widely seen as a faster, greener ...

Abstract: Comparing with the passion for verification technical innovations, the practical verification experiences especially the bug reports and analyses rarely appear in public research. It is very ...

As new use cases emerge in the personal electronics market, the processors that run them must evolve to meet the changing requirements. In 1990, the productivity era drove growth in personal computers ...

Abstract: A green data center is all about getting the most compute productivity out of the least energy. Key to that is selecting an appropriate microprocessor and server with which to populate that ...

Does system architecture affect power dissipation? You bet it does. A few days ago, I discussed an article in EDN that was written by Dean Andersen. He stated as his first major point that ...