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, ...

Building a functioning 16-bit processor or CPU inside Microsoft Excel, with its own memory, output, and custom assembly language, is an impressive - if not entirely useful - feat. This is because ...

Building your own computer has many possible paths. One can fabricate their own Z80 or MOS 6502 computers and then run a period correct OS. Or a person could start from scratch as [James Stanley] did.

New 16-bit processor architecture offers advanced computing functionality at the lowest unit cost and lowest power, available for licence from Cambridge Consultants for use in ASIC design July 10th, ...

Our ability to continuously shrink the features of our silicon-based processors appears to be a thing of the past, which has materials scientists considering ways to move beyond silicon. The top ...

Extended support is provided for Infineon 16-bit 80C16x and STMicroelectronics ST10 series processors with three new real-time operating systems (CMX-RTX, CMX-Tiny+ and CMX-RTXS) and two specialized ...

How many of us can say, hand on heart, that we haven’t at one point been tempted to turn a room in our home into, say, the Batcave, the U.S.S. Enterprise bridge, or some other bit of fanboy nerdery ...

CPUs that process 64 bits as a single unit, compared to 8, 16 or 32. Today's desktop and laptop computers are mostly 64-bit machines; however, there are countless 32-bit, 16-bit and 8-bit ...