A man has gone viral after building a fully functional 8-bit computer out of K’Nex. In a video that has now amassed over 112,000 views, Kyle, known online as Shadowman39, debuted the Arithmetic and ...

San Jose, Calif. – Consumers will get their hands on 64-bit computers — that much is certain. The only question is when. A panel of industry heavyweights Wednesday gathered here at the Platform ...

Fantastic technological leaps forward may be possible, but they leave behind a frustrated base of users invested in abandoned tech. One such example in the 1970s was the rise of 32-bit memory ...

I've got a shelf full of computer history books, many of which I love and have reread several times. But I wanted to write one that focused on the first real computer I grew up with, the one that ...

Hi everyone! Have you heard of the brand new 8-bit computer built from (mostly) off-the-shelf parts called Commander X16 made by a team of people under The 8-Bit Guy (David Murray)? If so what are ...

The Zilog Z80 microprocessor is an 8-bit chip that was first released in the 1970s and used in a variety of classic computers and game consoles including the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, TRS-80, and Sega ...

Advanced Micro Devices wants to give you something Intel can't. The chipmaker unveiled its Athlon 64 processor on Tuesday at a San Francisco event hosted by CEO Hector Ruiz. Along with added ...

As part of his computer science curriculum at Texas A&M University in the early 2000s, [Paul Krizak] took a computer architecture course on the basics of their functioning. This and being exposed to ...

Computer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks' The US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has been pushing for the development of post-quantum cryptographic ...