Recap: Intel introduced its first x86 processor architecture in 1978 with the 8086 microprocessor. A few years later, the company made history again with the 80286 – a CPU so successful that it ...

Classified history: Intel's 4004 has long been celebrated as a milestone in the early history of personal computing. However, decades after its introduction, it's been revealed that an iconic fighter ...

EMU8086 is arguable the most powerful and popular 8086 Emulator for Windows 10. It has a simple user interface and tons of example codes for a beginner. The only caveat here is that it doesn’t emulate ...

September 18 - Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab on Thursday unveiled plans to invest $5 billion in Intel (INTC.O), opens new tab, offering a fresh lease of life to the crisis-hit chipmaker, which has ...

Small allocates 4MB (0x1000 bytes) of memory on the heap, and that serves as the main memory location wherein instructions are allocated using the small::alloc method. Small emulates the general ...

China may have just taken a significant step forward in the global chip race. A team of researchers from Peking University says it has developed a silicon-free transistor that could dramatically ...

MS-DOS Correspondent Kevin Lipe reporting again from the trailing edge of computing. When I was last with you, we discussed the Pocket 8086. If you don’t remember what the Pocket 8086 is, or who I am, ...

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post written by my buddy Kevin, and is the first in a series covering a weird and wonderful corner of retrocomputing. I’m Kevin Lipe, 512 Pixels’ somewhat-official ...

A new technical paper titled “Bendable non-silicon RISC-V microprocessor” was published by researchers at Pragmatic Semiconductor, Qamcom, and Harvard University. From the abstract: “Here we present ...