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. Their ...

Mass production of microchips is the embodiment of a form of hyper-capitalism, one that is extremely demanding in terms of investment, research and energy – fields in which Europe has yet to find a ...

Information theory and the second law of thermodynamics dictate that a logical operation in a computer must consume a minimum amount of energy. Today's computers consume a million times more energy ...

Everything indicates that at its next developers’ conference (WWDC), starting on June 22, Apple will announce it is no longer going to use Intel microprocessors and will start making its own, based on ...

Computer engineers have developed a new AI method for accurately predicting the power consumption of any type of computer processor more than a trillion times per second while barely using any ...

This is just a theoretical EE question. I've read up via Google on the differences between CPUs, Microprocessors, and ASICs. However, I'm still trying to clear a few things up for myself. Two ...

Better ways of measuring the energy consumption from microprocessors could have both environmental and economic benefits, a study by the Australian National University has found. ANU researchers ...

This is part of the Do You Recognize This series in the Electronic History section of our Series Library. We have come a long way since the Intel 8008 was released in April of 1972. The early 8-bit ...