Most of us will be familiar at some level with the operation of a basic CPU, usually through exposure to microprocessors of the type that find their way into our projects. We can look at its internal ...

There was a time when the clock speed of a CPU was the only thing people were talking about. Back at the turn of the century, Intel and AMD locked horns in a race to release the first 1GHz desktop CPU ...

An Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) defines the software interface through which for example a central processor unit (CPU) is controlled. Unlike early computer systems which didn’t define a ...

I'm still busily beavering away on the idea of my Heath Robinson Rube Goldberg mixed-technology computer (relays, vacuum tubes, transistors, fluidic logic, etc.). As you'll see if you visit the above ...

August 8, 2008 will be a significant date in the history of computer architecture. This is the date that Intel intends to discontinue the Pentium 4 CPU line, therefore also the NetBurst ...