[RetroBytes] nicely presents the curious history of the SPARC processor architecture. SPARC, short for Scalable Processor Architecture, defined some of the most commercially successful RISC ...

Back when Qualcomm first announced the Snapdragon X Arm-based chip for PC, it made big claims about gaming prowess, including ...

Starting in 1994, AMD introduced its first Pentium-compatible CPU, the K5 ... could be easily ported to the new architecture. See 8088 and CPM. The 8088's simple architecture was limited to ...

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 ...