India has built its first space-grade computer chip for rockets, called Vikram 3201. It is the country’s first indigenous ...

As NPR marks its 50th anniversary, we look back at an innovation that also changed the world in 1971: the unveiling of the first commercially produced microprocessor. NPR turned 50 this year. And to ...

Apart from Vikram, test chips from four approved projects were also presented to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

For Jim Scherrer, founder and president of the Compuseum, the 6502 microprocessor chip made Montgomery County’s MOS Technology the “vanguard of personal computing.” The 6502 chip was created by MOS ...

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

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

A start-up in Mountain View, Calif., is developing a cooling technology that will make chips that aren’t too hot to handle. As microprocessors have gotten faster and smaller, they’ve also become too ...