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, ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Mark Hempstead owns shares in Intel Corp in a retirement account. He has received federal and industry funds for his research in power-management and computer architecture. Computers’ amazing ...

After changing the fundamental idea of chip design, former academics Dave Patterson and John Hennessy have received “the Nobel Prize of computing.” By Cade Metz Several companies, including ...

Intel and AMD Confirmed as Early Licensees of Widely Used Microprocessor System Design and Architecture Patents CUPERTINO, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- July 27, 2005-- Alliacense, a TPL Group enterprise ...

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 ...