A new device could allow computer processors to operate significantly faster, without generating waste heat.

The chip titan plans to manufacture its communications chips in the same plants used to make microprocessors and flash memory, a shift likely to cut costs and expand its markets. Michael Kanellos is ...

For more than three decades, microprocessors have doubled in power every 18 to 24 months. That progress will continue for another 10 years or so, chip makers say; then some new technology may have to ...

Everything indicates that at its next developers’ conference (WWDC), starting on June 22, Apple will announce it is no longer going to use Intel microprocessors and will start making its own, based on ...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) will start making chips with transistors as tiny as 40 nanometers (nm) in the second quarter, enabling smaller, more powerful and energy-efficient chips.

What are Microprocessors and Microcontrollers? Microprocessors and microcontrollers are essential components of an embedded system. These are single-chip processors that accelerate the computing ...

Computers’ amazing abilities to entertain people, help them work, and even respond to voice commands are, at their heart, the results of decades of technological development and innovation in ...