Silicon transistors—critical microprocessor components that switch between 1 and 0 bits to carry out computations—have carried the computer industry for decades. As predicted by Moore's Law, industry ...

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 ...

IDC on Thursday said the worldwide PC microprocessor industry experienced sluggish growth in the fourth quarter of 2010, and offered a conservative forecast for the industry in 2011 due to delays to ...

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 ...

Forty years ago today, electronics and semiconductor trade newspaper Electronic News ran an advertisement for a new kind of chip. The Intel 4004, a $60 chip in a 16-pin dual in-line package, was an ...

ARM co-founder Dr. Hermann Hauser on Friday offered scathing opinions of Intel and predicted the end of the microprocessor industry. ’The reason why ARM is going to kill the microprocessor is not ...

(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 ...