Today’s supply chain issues can make it hard to buy microcontrollers, or really any kind of semiconductor. But for those keeping retrocomputers alive, this problem has always existed: ancient ...

If you own a modern computer, it is probably several times faster than the one that landed the first lunar module on the moon. Modern personal computers consist of many components that work together ...

On 2 January 2018, news broke of a novel class of security flaws in modern processors. Known inside the chip and software industry since the middle of 2017, and deeply embedded in the fundamental ...

The main processor (CPU, “Central Processing Unit”), the main memory (RAM, “Random-Access Memory”), and the dedicated graphics card with its graphics processor (GPU, “Graphics Processing Unit”) are ...

Every modern computer has a microprocessor in it, but not many have a digital signal processor (DSP). Since the CPU is a digital device, it clearly processes digital data, so you might wonder what the ...

Modern smartphones are essentially miniaturized computers with various processing components. You likely already know about the Central Processing Unit (CPU) from computers, but between the Graphics ...