Of the hundreds of components that make up a modern computer, the microprocessor chip consumes the most energy. An essential part of any PC, laptop or mobile device, a microprocessor performs ...

The first general-purpose processor of the modern age came off the line today in 1971 to power a calculator. It changed the world. Michael is CIO at Ziff Brothers Investments, a private investment ...

These days we are blessed with multicore 64-bit monster CPUs that can calculate an entire moon mission’s worth of instructions in the blink of an eye. Once upon a time, though, the state of the art ...

The release of Intel’s 8086 microprocessor in 1978 was a watershed moment for personal computing. The DNA of that chip is likely at the center of whatever computer—Windows, Mac, or Linux—you’re using ...

Together, the four founders of Beaverton startup AheadComputing spent nearly a century at Intel. They were among Intel’s top chip architects, working years in advance to develop new generations of ...