I suppose the holy grail would be to bootstrap your custom CPU into a full-blown Linux system. That’s a big enough job that I haven’t done it. Although you might be more productive than I am ...

On a microcontroller, though, you’ll have to roll your own CPU load meter with a few parts, some code, and a voltmeter. We like [Dave Marples]’s simple approach to quantifying something as ...

Starting in 1994, AMD introduced its first Pentium-compatible CPU, the K5. It was followed ... See 8088 and CPM. The 8088's simple architecture was limited to one megabyte of RAM.

It has a simple interface that shows your CPU’s temp in real time, along with your CPU’s maximum boost clock and current CPU usage. The CAM is free, and you can even dock a tiny version to ...

competition has been successfully cracked by researchers at the Catholic University if Leuven in Belgium using a simple CPU. Last month, NIST announced four candidates that will be standardised as ...

Among all the components involved in a PC build, the CPU cooler might be among the trickiest ones to install. Whether ...