Like many pre-21st-century technological artifacts including steam locomotives, audio tapes, and 4-bit microprocessors—16-bit processors have reached the end of their useful life. Steve Leibson, ...

Recap: Intel introduced its first x86 processor architecture in 1978 with the 8086 microprocessor. A few years later, the company made history again with the 80286 – a CPU so successful that it ...

Thirty years ago, on June 8, 1978, Intel Corp. introduced its first 16-bit microprocessor, the 8086, with a splashy ad heralding “the dawn of a new era.” Overblown? Sure, but also prophetic. While the ...

Back in the hazy days of the early home computers, many of us would rejoice at running our first BASIC applications, some of us even built our own 8-bit system from a handful of ICs and felt elated ...

Dallas, Tex.— Texas Instruments Inc. has released three 16-bit configurable I²C and SMBus I/O expanders, the PCA9555, PCA9535, and PCA9539. The 16-bit I/O devices are designed to expand ...

The digital world is supported by countless "random numbers." From encryption in online banking to item drop probabilities in social games, and even predictions in scientific simulations, there exists ...