You’d think that the 8086 microprocessor, a 40-year-old chip with a mere 29,000 transistors on board that kicked off the 16-bit PC revolution, would have no more tales left to tell. But as [Ken ...

The microprocessor has been at the center of the computer industry since Intel announced the 8086 way back in 1980. Advances in microprocessor architecture and performance have driven computing from ...

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 ...

The world's first microprocessor – the Intel 4004 – first leapt onto the stage in 1971, which is 37 years ago as I pen these words. (Before you start emailing me saying “Ha, the 4004 wasn't the first ...

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 ...

Once upon a time Intel created a catchy phrase — Native Signal Processing — to tout the myriad telecomputing and entertainment functions that could be brought into the microprocessor. The phrase went ...

While this is about the changes in the microprocessor market and the impact of tariffs, I’ve also been extremely disappointed in Microsoft’s AI rollout. Right now, I’m working in Microsoft Word on one ...

From John Steele Gordon writing in today’s WSJ (“The Little Miracle Spurring Inequality“): The great growth of fortunes in recent decades is not a sinister development. Instead it is simply the ...

NPR turned 50 this year. And to celebrate, we're marking some of the big events of 1971. If you're listening to this on a smartphone or on the internet or in a car full of computer chips, that is only ...