Moore’s Law, which states that the number of transistors that can be assembled on a given area of an IC will double every two years, is, depending on who you ask, either already dead or on life ...

Intel is preparing to talk about a bunch of research advances at a chip engineering conference next week. The advances range from a new microprocessor with 2.3 billion transistors on a sliver of ...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the microprocessor. But developments in these semiconductor chips, which are the heart of every electronic device, continue with gusto. Researchers at UK-based ...

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 ...

imec in Belgium has detailed the design of an 8bit 6502 plastic processor developed with foundry PragmatIC Semiconductor and KU Leuven. The 8bit microprocessor detailed at ISSCC 2022 this week was ...

The big picture: Intel forever changed the trajectory of computing - and really, human history - with the introduction of the first commercially available microprocessor. The Intel 4004 launched 50 ...