When the microprocessor and inexpensive ROM memory arrived in the early 1970s, building small, stored-program computing systems became practical. System designers learned that with the rapidly growing ...

Integrating processors, sensors, and data exchange functionality into everyday objects, the Internet of Things (IoT) pushes computing capabilities far beyond desktops and servers. On December 6, ...

Editor's note: GE Intelligent Platforms changed its name to Abaco Systems on 23 Nov. 2015 as a result of the company's acquisition last September by New York-based private equity firm Veritas Capital.

Integrators of central processing units — the brains of sophisticated military and aerospace systems — are dividing into two camps: those who continue to specify traditional silicon chips, and those ...

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 ...

Powered by the Rabbit 3000 microprocessor, the RCM3100 RabbitCore microprocessor core module enables designers to rapidly develop and implement embedded systems. The RCM3100 has six serial ports and ...

Multi-core chips tend to be more efficient than multi-CPU systems. Another benefit of multi-core systems is that having only a single CPU keeps system board prices low since there is only a need for ...

Montalvo is believed to be working on a low-power processor that aims to compete with chips from Intel and AMD Sun Microsystems acquired microprocessor startup Montalvo Systems for an undisclosed sum, ...

Until the early 2000s, the computer processors available on the market were essentially all single-core chips. There were some niche layouts that used multiple processors on the same board for ...

A study on the algae-powered microprocessor titled "Powering a microprocessor by photosynthesis" has been published in the journal Energy & Environmental Science. The widespread Synechocystis species ...