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FORTY years ago, a young technician by the name of Gordon Moore determined the early development of microelectronics, which even today defines the strategy of the semi-conductor industry, worth 200 ...

Computer engineers have developed a new AI method for accurately predicting the power consumption of any type of computer processor more than a trillion times per second while barely using any ...

Apple Computer has recently received praise for its iTunes music service. But its new Power Mac G5 computers, which went on sale in stores Monday, will probably have a much larger impact on the world ...

Microprocessors are getting so tiny that they’re actually small enough for quantum mechanics to start affecting their performance. That’s bad news for traditional computing, but it’s led to a ...

Dan Geiger has created a new learning platform which has been specifically designed to teach you how a computer works at the most fundamental level, and even allows you to program in machine language ...

If you maintain an interest in vintage computers, you may well know something of the early history of the microprocessor, how Intel’s 4-bit 4004, intended for a desktop calculator, was the first to be ...

Information theory and the second law of thermodynamics dictate that a logical operation in a computer must consume a minimum amount of energy. Today's computers consume a million times more energy ...

WASHINGTON — Responding to industry pressure and congressional inaction on export control legislation, the Bush administration on Wednesday (Jan. 2) relaxed restrictions on computer and microprocessor ...