“We always hoped that something like this could be built – now we know that it can be built,” says Max Shulaker, professor at MIT and corresponding author on this latest report. Carbon nanotubes have ...

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 ...

Scientists at MIT built a 16-bit microprocessor out of carbon nanotubes and even ran a program on it, a new paper reports. Silicon-based computer processors seem to be approaching a limit to how small ...

Carbon nanotubes are nearly atomically thin carbon structures — just 1-1.2 nanometers thin. "Pure" carbon nanotubes are a powerful semiconductor, one that can compete with silicon for integration into ...

Increment and decrement. They sound like simple functions. But even the simplest functions can get quite complex in a microprocessor design. Ken Shirriff has written up a great blog post about his ...

The CPU addresses each general-purpose register as a 16-bit register or two 8-bit registers. The core architecture breaks down into two separate sets: the processor proper and the bus-interface unit, ...

Intel’s 8086 16-bit microprocessor and its 8-bit sibling, the 8088, gave the personal computer market a tremendous boost when IBM adopted the 8088 in 1981 for the original IBM PC and used 8086-family ...

MESA, Arizona, May 26, 2003 - The Western Design Center, Inc. (WDC) announces its 25th anniversary. WDC, the original source and Intellectual Property (IP) owner of the patented W65C02 TM 8-bit and ...

Editor’s Note: This story is excerpted from Computerworld. For more Mac coverage, visit Computerworld’s Macintosh Knowledge Center. Thirty years ago, on June 8, 1978, Intel introduced its first 16-bit ...