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 ...

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 ...

Forty years ago today, electronics and semiconductor trade newspaper Electronic News ran an advertisement for a new kind of chip. The Intel 4004, a $60 chip in a 16-pin dual in-line package, was an ...

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 ...

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 ...

This processor is an advanced version of the indigenously designed 16-bit Vikram 1601 microprocessor, which has been operating in the avionics system of ISRO's launch vehicles since 2009, ISRO said in ...

The Government of India has announced the launch of the Linux-compatible DHRUV64 (VEGA AS2161) dual-core 64-bit RISC-V MPU ...

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 ...

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 ...