You’d think that the 8086 microprocessor, a 40-year-old chip with a mere 29,000 transistors on board that kicked off the 16-bit PC revolution, would have no more tales left to tell. But as [Ken ...

An artist's conception of a carbon nanotube—a single-atom-thick layer of carbon rolled into a tube. Image Credit: Geoff Hutchison, flickr Share This week, a computational milestone made its debut: a ...

Researchers have developed a microprocessor built on high-performance plastic rather than silicon—and they say it could enable smarter food labels and supply chain management. Christopher Intagliata: ...

The feature sizes of silicon field-effect transistors are approaching their physical limits. Two-dimensional (2D) materials can be used to build smaller devices with high integration and ...

A foundry-inspired workflow — developed through 130 batches of test-driven process optimization — can be used to fabricate wafer-scale integrated circuits based on monolayer molybdenum disulfide ...

Disney has agreed to a $50 million settlement to resolve antitrust claims that it artificially boosted live TV streaming prices. The lawsuit alleged Disney leveraged its market power, particularly ...

A microprocessor is a complex, programmable integrated circuit (IC) on a single chip that can execute instructions. This generally includes CPUs found in computers but also refers to the ...

Researchers have built a primitive microprocessor out of a two-dimensional material similar to graphene, the flexible conductive wonder material that some believe will revolutionize the design and ...

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 faster, greener ...

The processors in today’s computers have grown tremendously in performance, capabilities and complexity over the past decade. Clock speed has skyrocketed, and size has dwindled, even as the number of ...

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The MITRE-led Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) program added four new microprocessor-related weaknesses to its community-developed list of common software and hardware weaknesses that result in ...