Incorporating a high-end SuperH SH-4A CPU core and a PCI bus controller, the SH7780 microprocessor features a dedicated three-bus architecture and delivers up to 720 MIPS and 2.8 GFLOPS at 400 MHz.

A microprocessor that uses optical connections instead of electrical wires to shuttle data around has long been the dream of chip designers, but the attempt to fabricate one has frustrated them for ...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the microprocessor. But developments in these semiconductor chips, which are the heart of every electronic device, continue with gusto. Researchers at UK-based ...

A prototype microprocessor using optical connections has been developed by a group of researchers at MIT, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Colorado, Boulder. The ...

Graphene could become the next big thing in the quest for smaller, less power-hungry electronics. Physicists are making discoveries that may advance electronic circuit technology. Graphene could ...

When the microprocessor and inexpensive ROM memory arrived in the early 1970s, building small, stored-program computing systems became practical. System designers learned that with the rapidly growing ...

High-performance microprocessors that harness photons rather than electrons promise to make computers up to a thousand times more efficient because electrons typically move at a low fraction of the ...

(Phys.org) —A pair of breakthroughs in the field of silicon photonics by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Micron Technology Inc. could ...

A microprocessor is a complex, programmable integrated circuit (IC) on a single chip that can execute instructions. This generally includes CPUs found in computers but also refers to the ...

A pair of breakthroughs in the field of silicon photonics could allow for the trajectory of exponential improvement in microprocessors that began nearly half a century ago -- known as Moore's Law -- ...