Kyle Hovey has decided to build his own 8-bit CPU from scratch, out of breadboard, NVRAM chips, surface-mount transistors, and lots and lots of wire -- and he's blogged his experience, so you can ...

This was Intel's first 8-bit microprocessor and the ancestor of the x86 processor family that you may be using right now. I couldn't find good die photos of the 8008, so I opened one up and took ...

Single-transistor level is just for people debugging or optimising 8-bit processors in the 1970s. Even then I’m sure most of the design was done on higher levels of abstraction. Report comment ...

Intel’s fabrication plants can churn out hundreds of thousands of processor chips a day. But what does it take to handcraft a single 8-bit CPU and a computer? Give or take 18 months, about ...