For designers working on the next generation of microprocessors, Moore's Law is becoming Moore's Curse. Moore's Law--the observation by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that the number of transistors on ...

The 4004 microprocessor. [Photo: Intel] On Tuesday November 15, Intel held an event in San Francisco to celebrate the fortieth birthday of its 4004 microprocessor–the first complete single-chip ...

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To see Moore's law in action, you have get extra close to the central processing unit (CPU). This tiny 32-bit Motorola 68030, with 273,000 transistors - each with data caches of 256 bytes - was ...

Ivan Sutherland questions the way things are done. The 65-year-old Sun Microsystems researcher says there is no law that says a microprocessor has to be on one chip or that the fastest way to connect ...

Along with a research team from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Shalf is designing a supercomputer based on low-power embedded microprocessors, which has the ...