Thirty years ago, on June 8, 1978, Intel Corp. introduced its first 16-bit microprocessor, the 8086, with a splashy ad heralding “the dawn of a new era.” Overblown? Sure, but also prophetic. While the ...

When the microprocessor and inexpensive ROM memory arrived in the early 1970s, building small, stored-program computing systems became practical. System designers learned that with the rapidly growing ...

The microprocessor is a computer processor of arithmetic, logic, and control circuitry on a single integrated circuit. The ...

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MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ — Logic, an innovative product solutions company, announces the availability of the AM3517 System on Module (SOM) and the Zoom AM3517 eXperimenter Development Kit ...