Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. ARM holdings announced a new microprocessor design based on the "Flycatcher" architecture yesterday, ...

(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 ...

A breakthrough microchip specification language will allow ambiguous English to be replaced by a mathematically precise description of processor functions and design. Better yet, it applies to every ...

Microprocessor design hit a wall in the first half of this decade with Intel unable to deliver a 4gHz Pentium chip and IBM unable to deliver Apple a 3gHz PowerPC G5 chip or a G5 at any speed suitable ...

Do you see that grumpy old engineer in the corner of the lab who delights in sending new graduates down to stores to get a bag of holes. That could have been me, but when Personnel departments became ...

BANGALORE, India — The Indian government will reportedly bring together top engineers to design what is tentatively being called the “India microprocessor.” One of the design program's goals is ...

Created by Philippe Notton, SiPearl is the company that is bringing to life the European Processor Initiative (EPI) consortium project, designing the high-performance, low-power microprocessor for the ...

As new use cases emerge in the personal electronics market, the processors that run them must evolve to meet the changing requirements. In 1990, the productivity era drove growth in personal computers ...