PragmatIC Semiconductor’s recent announcement about developing a flexible version of the 6502 processor takes tech history buffs on the road to nostalgia. The 8-bit processor and its variants became ...

Recap: Intel introduced its first x86 processor architecture in 1978 with the 8086 microprocessor. A few years later, the company made history again with the 80286 – a CPU so successful that it ...

MaximumPC takes a maximum look at the 3.1 decades of x86 CPU architecture, which you’re probably using RIGHT NOW on some machine in your home, assuming you’re not cheap or a weirdo. Not only do they ...

Going as far back as I can recall, CPUs came in packages with pins on the bottom and laid flat on the motherboard. Then for a while, they had contacts along the edge and stood perpendicular to the ...

You've probably heard the acronym CPU lots of times when you went out hunting for a laptop or desktop computer to buy. Quite often, the type of CPU in the device will be mentioned as part of the specs ...