Intel's groundbreaking 8008 microprocessor was produced over 50 years ago, the ancestor of the x86 processor family that you may be using right now.

A team of microchip engineers at Pragmatic Semiconductor, working with a pair of colleagues from Harvard University and another from Qamcom, has developed a bendable, programmable, non-silicon 32 ...

A team of engineers at Fudan University has successfully designed, built and run a 32-bit RISC-V microprocessor that uses molybdenum disulfide instead of silicon as its semiconductor component ...

Researchers have unveiled a silicon-free microprocessor technology that could be the future of microprocessors and have global implications.

First commercial microprocessor is introduced 1971 In 1958 the integrated circuit was developed by a young engineer at Texas Instruments named Jack St. Clair Kilby.

Multicore is, at least for the time being, a term that means placing two or more microprocessors on a single piece of silicon. If you know anything about semiconductors, you realize that's a ...

The 1970s marked the start of the PC revolution with chips like Intel's 8008.

A new breakthrough in China could power the future of silicon-free chips, further revolutionizing how we make microprocessors.

Building The Foundation: Silicon Wafers The base for a microprocessor is a thin slice of silicon, a material adept at conducting electricity under certain conditions.

Texas Instruments manufactured the first practical silicon chips in 1959. About ten years later, Gilbert Hyatt took the integrated circuit a step further by including in one place all the pieces ...

Multicore is, at least for the time being, a term that means placing two or more microprocessors on a single piece of silicon. If you know anything about semiconductors, you realize that's a ...