[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 ...

What's a CPU made of? What's the difference between a CPU and a GPU? Read our layman's overview of the central processing ...

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 ...