“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Operations within Siemens 166/165/167 µCs center on 16-bit registers in as many as 16 banks, as well as on a 16-bit program counter and a 16-bit program-status word. The dual-ported RAM banks let the ...

The D68000-BDM soft core is binary-compatible with the industry standard 68000 32-bit microcoprocessor. It has a 16-bit data bus and a 24-bit address ...

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 ...

Motorola's 68HC16 µC is a superset of and source-code-compatible with the 8-bit 68HC11; the HC16 has 261 instructions. The 68HC16 is an accumulator-based architecture; processing centers on two 16-bit ...

Max Shulaker and a group of researchers he leads has developed a working 16-bit microprocessor built from over 14,000 carbon nanotube transistors that is the most complex ever demonstrated. The ...

Linear Technology Corporation introduces a low-power 16-bit no missing codes, 80Msps analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that dissipates only 89mW, less than half the power of competing 16-bit solutions ...