Fifty years ago this month, Intel introduced the first commercial microprocessor, the 4004. Microprocessors are tiny, general-purpose chips that use integrated circuits made up of transistors to ...

Most microprocessors are made using silicon. And most are rigid, which means that if you want to put them in flexible devices like folding phones or wearables, they’ll need to be placed in a section ...

RV32-WUJI. a, Bottom, 24 WUJI chips produced on a 4-inch sapphire wafer. Top, zoomed-in optical microscope image showing a single die with an area of 6 mm × 6 mm, consisting of 5,900 MoS 2 transistors ...

A microprocessor is a complex, programmable integrated circuit (IC) on a single chip that can execute instructions. This generally includes CPUs found in computers but also refers to the ...

The processors of the future might not be made with silicon as they have been for nearly 50 years. New research headed by ARM and PragmatIC has produced a flexible processor made out of plastic. The ...

The processors in today’s computers have grown tremendously in performance, capabilities and complexity over the past decade. Clock speed has skyrocketed, and size has dwindled, even as the number of ...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the microprocessor. But developments in these semiconductor chips, which are the heart of every electronic device, continue with gusto. Researchers at UK-based ...

MIT and ADI have built a 16-bit processor using carbon nanotubes (CNTs). 10 million CNTs were used to form 14,702 CMOS CNT field-effect transistors (CNTFETs), arranged in 3,762 digital logic blocks, ...

A team of engineers at Fudan University has successfully designed, built and run a 32-bit RISC-V microprocessor that uses molybdenum disulfide instead of silicon as its semiconductor component. Their ...