The story so far: On December 15, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) announced the launch of DHRUV64, an indigenous microprocessor that it said would strengthen the ...

TL;DR: An ultra-rare Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 980 engineering sample, clocked at 4.0GHz, surfaced on Reddit, sparking interest as a possible employee loaner chip. This unreleased NetBurst ...

When they offer PCI capability, passive-backplane CPU boards also vary from the envelope of typical PC add-in cards. Bringing the PCI bus to a passive-backplane CPU card requires a second edge ...

"Chip design is not rocket science. It's much more difficult," is a running joke in the industry. But in an age where AI is helping solve some of the biggest challenges across medical science and ...

It's not. They're dropping support for both 486 and the 586 compatible CPUs including any CPU prior to Pentiium Pro. For practical purposes, that's anything before Pentium 2 chips since I don't ...

In this age, where AI models often demand cutting-edge GPUs and major computational resources, a recent experiment has shown us the feasibility of running a large language model (LLM) on a vintage ...

This decision isn't made lightly. The main reasons behind it are about making the Linux kernel better for modern computers. 1. Simplifying the code Supporting very old hardware requires special code ...

If you're looking to buy a new laptop or desktop computer, one of the things you should keep an eye out for is the processor's generation. The generation tells you the CPU's iteration and how new and ...

I'm Sayan Ghosh and I'm a contributor from Canada. I'd describe myself as an amateur photographer who loves storytelling and trying different street food. When not working, I'm on my custom-built PC, ...

UNITED STATES - AUGUST 13: The Intel 486 microprocessor (left) was introduced in 1989 and marked a significant improvement in the processing capacity of computers over that of the previous Intel 386 ...

The x86 CPU landscape of the 1980s and 1990s was competitive in a way that probably seems rather alien to anyone used to the duopoly that exists today between AMD and Intel. At one point in time, ...

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