Figure 1: The electro-optic system on a chip. We use the direct chip-to-chip optical connectivity of the microprocessor chip to build a photonically connected main memory system for the microprocessor ...

Guest author Ken Shirriff is a Silicon Valley-based computer enthusiast who enjoys reverse-engineering old chips and restoring classic equipment such as the Xerox Alto. Shirriff wrote the Arduino ...

India has officially announced DHRUV64, its first homegrown microprocessor featuring a 1GHz clock speed and a 64-bit dual-core architecture. The processor has been developed by the Centre for ...

For months, Apple has been fighting a battle to convince folks that megahertz (MHz) isn’t the ultimate benchmark in determining the speed of a computer. They haven’t made much headway, but in many ...