In 1958 the integrated circuit was developed by a young engineer at Texas Instruments named Jack St. Clair Kilby. He put together a few transistors and capacitors, linking them with a thin layer of ...

NPR turned 50 this year. And to celebrate, we're marking some of the big events of 1971. If you're listening to this on a smartphone or on the internet or in a car full of computer chips, that is only ...

Fifty years ago, the ground-breaking model inspired Bill Gates, Paul Wozniak and Steve Jobs to create Microsoft and Apple ...

Semiconductor chips are the building blocks of modern computation. From smartphones to the vast datacentres powering the ...

Thirty years ago, on June 8, 1978, Intel Corp. introduced its first 16-bit microprocessor, the 8086, with a splashy ad heralding “the dawn of a new era.” Overblown? Sure, but also prophetic. While the ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was ...

The unveiling of Vikram, India’s first 32-bit microprocessor, was a major milestone at Semicon India 2025. The Union Minister of Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw, handed over the chip, ...

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw presented India’s first indigenously developed Vikram 32-bit processor chip to Prime Minister ...