[Ken Shirriff] has been sharing a really low-level look at Intel’s Pentium (1993) processor. The Pentium’s architecture was highly innovative in many ways, and one of [Ken]’s most recent discoveries ...

Whereas the CPUs and similar ASICs of the 1970s had their transistors laid out manually, with the move from LSI to VLSI, it became necessary to optimize the process of laying out the transistors and ...

I know you get a lot of "what video card should I buy" threads, so if this gets locked I can understand it. View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif <P>Anyway, I ...

The catch? It's kinda slow, as in 20,000 times slower than a GPU. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Add us as a preferred source on ...