We recently looked at the origins of the integrated circuit (IC) and the calculator, which was the IC’s first killer app, but a surprise twist is that the calculator played a big part in the invention ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jim is a principal analyst and partner at TIRIAS Research. Discussions about CPUs often frame one instruction set architecture ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about disruptive companies, technologies and usage models. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger and AMD CEO Lisa Su have joined forces ...

AMD’s Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) hardware framework provides Heterogeneous Uniform Memory Access (hUMA) to CPUs and GPUs (Fig. 1). It radically changes the way CPUs and GPUs will interact ...

Microprocessors are wondrous devices: They integrate the brain of a computer onto a single electronic component. The computing power that once required a room full of equipment now fits onto a ...

In March of 2003, Intel officially launched its Centrino mobile computing platform, at the center of which was a new x86 processor designed specifically for the mobile computing space: the Pentium M.

Adding network services in a secure fashion to today's network infrastructure requires deploying a large number of separate devices. These can include a Layer 4+ switch, an anti-spam gateway, firewall ...

Processor vendors are starting to emphasize microarchitectural improvements and data movement over process node scaling, setting the stage for much bigger performance gains in devices that narrowly ...