Creating the 8080: The Processor That Started the PC Revolution If the introduction of the Intel 8008 led to a variety of interesting devices that can be considered the first early PCs, it was its ...

The big picture: Intel forever changed the trajectory of computing - and really, human history - with the introduction of the first commercially available microprocessor. The Intel 4004 launched 50 ...

Welcome to The Drive, a weekly column looking at some wacky, interesting, cool, and pivotal things within the tech space! Curated by PC Hardware Lead Editor Richard Edmonds through almost two decades ...

From the introduction of Intel's 4004 chip in 1971 to today's quad-core desktop chips with four processing engines, the evolution of the commercial microprocessor has come a long way in just 35 years.

Given the interest in smaller computers, coupled with the introduction of microprocessors, the creation of a successful personal computer was probably inevitable. But it likely would have happened ...

The researchers are interested in applying spintronics to the transmission of information, not its storage or manipulation, as has been the case University researchers in the U.K. will study how to ...