NEW YORK --IBM computer microprocessors are going open source. Big Blue now wants companies and developers to actively participate in the design of IBM's Power microchips, and is encouraging ...

Just how many "brains" does your personal computer need, anyway? Not that buying a PC was ever as easy as, say, buying a toaster or an electric toothbrush, but the companies that make the electronic ...

While the semiconductor market was shrinking, the number of different microprocessors on the market was growing. With more chips to choose from, it's easier to meet the exact performance, power and ...

This microchip with 1,000 processor cores was designed by graduate students in the UC Davis Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The chip is thought to be fastest designed in a ...

When it comes to computing technology, the research goal of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency can be summed up in two words: power and speed. In the latter category, Sun Microsystems Inc.

(Nanowerk News) Microprocessors play a pivotal role in computers and have steadily increased the speed of information processing over the past several decades. However, due to technical limitations ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A U.S. District Court judge Thursday (May 12) issued an order preventing Renesas Technology Inc. from selling in the U.S. microprocessors that have been found to infringe on a patent ...

Back in my days at DEC, may it rest in pieces, this was called a rock-fetch. A staff member was tasked with ferreting out useful data by sifting through mounds of data to create information to support ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Just how many "brains" does your personal computer need, anyway? Not that buying a PC was ever as easy as, say, buying a toaster or an electric toothbrush, but the companies ...