Fifty years ago this month, Intel introduced the first commercial microprocessor, the 4004. Microprocessors are tiny, general-purpose chips that use integrated circuits made up of transistors to ...

(Nanowerk News) 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 ...

FREMONT, CA, October 27th, 2021 – CORSAIR ® (NASDAQ: CRSR), a world leader in enthusiast components for gamers, creators, and PC builders, today announced a range of exciting products to help usher in ...

Eight hardware threads in a four-processor system — that’s the innovation behind the Sun Fire V490, one of the first two models to use the company’s new dual-core UltraSparc IV chip. (The other is the ...

This year brought a better variety of laptop processors than perhaps ever before. A lot of this is due to the increasingly competitive environment in the semiconductor industry, with AMD putting out ...

PC processor prices are poised to rise substantially in 2022 to reflect rising foundry costs; processors fabricated using sub-7nm process nodes are particularly likely to rise in price, which may heap ...