Apple recently made available the Developer Notes for the new PowerBook models. This documentation reveals that the 15" and 17" models (but not the 12" model) support processor/bus"slewing." Slewing ...

A computer motherboard's bus speed has no effect on the installed CPU's speed. In a computer, the motherboard and the CPU are two separate components and do not impact the performance of one another.

Renesas Technology Corp. today announced the development of the SH7780, a 32-bit microprocessor incorporating the SH-4A, the high-end CPU core in the SuperH™* 1 Family, and a PCI bus * 2 controller ...

The new C269 Equinox from General Micro Systems is a hot-swappable industrial CompactPCI CPU board based on Intel's new Xeon-LP Pentium IV processor (Picture). Featuring dual 3-GHz Xeon-LP CPUs, the ...

Renesas Technology America, Inc. today announced the SH7780, a microprocessor incorporating the high end SuperH(TM) SH-4A CPU core and a PCI (peripheral component interconnect) bus controller (PCIC).

A Spymac thread posted this weekend reveals some screenshots and information about a feature of the new PowerMac G5's called "Slewing". Details on the various modes are provided in Apple's Developer ...

my ancient board is a surprisingly versatile Epox EP-5BVPXA, Which I presume has a 66mhz bus. My current CPU is a P200 MMX @ 200 Mhz with a 66MHZ FSB. Now I got myself a K6-2, 300 mhz with a 100Mhz ...

For many years, the 8-bit microcontroller has been the workhorse of embedded systems. Design teams favor the size and power benefits that a tightly coupled processor, such as the 8051 microcontroller, ...

The one-processor system model that has dominated electronic system design since 1971 is now thoroughly obsolete. Today's SOC designers readily accept the idea of using multiple processors in their ...

When AMD released the first Athlon processor in August 1999, we were already told that its point-to-point processor bus, Alpha’s EV6, supports multi processor configuration. It took almost two years ...