The resulting benefit can vary accordingly. “A small simple branch predictor might speed up a processor by 15%, whereas a ...

Brain-inspired chips can slash AI energy use by as much as 100-fold, but the road to mainstream deployment is far from ...

You will look long and hard for any OMA/AMO drawings at ‘Diagrams’, the new show at the Fondazione Prada event in Venice, even though it is curated by Rem Koolhaas, the practice’s lead partner. The ...

Linux drops support for 486 and early Pentium processors - 20 years after Microsoft I can still remember when the 33MHz 486DX was the fastest chip around.

Recognizable for its pointed arches and rib vaults, Gothic architecture was Europe’s primary building style for cathedrals from the late 12th to the 16th century. It evolved from its heavier ...

A look at the curious history of Venn diagrams and the way they blend logic with geometry ...

In 1994, Intel faced its first major recall due to the FDIV bug in the original Pentium processor, resulting in a financial loss of approximately $475 million USD.

Imagine wandering through an exhibition of artistic textiles and stumbling across a Navajo rug that looked for all the world like an Intel CPU. Well, that's exactly what happened to computer ...

Pentium 4 - the CPU Intel got SO wrong Huge clock speeds, hot temperatures, and disappointing performance. We look at the catastrophically misjudged Intel NetBurst architecture.