Ken Shirriff] has been sharing a really low-level look at Intel’s Pentium (1993) processor. The Pentium’s architecture was ...

It was 1/8" by 1/16" with 2300 transistors etched into the silicon. And all by itself it was as powerful as ENIAC, the early (mammoth at 30 tons!) computer built in 1946.

This is quite a bit bigger than the original 12mm² die. The Intel 4004 was among the first microprocessors and one of the first to use the MOS silicon-gate technology. In the decades long race to ...

The silicon community has been ... Large and fast on-die memory has become increasingly important in today's microprocessors. The six-transistor (6T) static random access memory (SRAM)-based ...

The 6809 Microprocessor IP Core is a software compatible 6809 microprocessor implemented in VHDL using a stuctured and synchronous design methodology. This flexible 6809 8-bit microprocessor can be ...

Traditional microprocessors, built on silicon, have seen significant performance improvements in recent years due to ...

In 1968, Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce founded Intel, a classic Silicon Valley startup, which in 1971 produced the first microprocessor (uP) design. This first microprocessor contained 2300 ...

Ditching traditional silicon, commonplace for conventional processors and compute devices, this RISC-V-based microprocessor ...