The modules themselves don’t have full-sized ports, but when connected to a carrier board like the Bit-Brick Cluster K1 you get access to Gigabit ethernet, HDMI 1.4, USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 Type-A ports, ...

Hi everyone! Have you heard of the brand new 8-bit computer built from (mostly) off-the-shelf parts called Commander X16 made by a team of people under The 8-Bit Guy (David Murray)? If so what are ...

Imagine the ultimate homage to 1980s 8-bit home computers. It might look like [David Murray] aka The 8-Bit Guy’s Commander X16. As a core group of geeks, hackers, and developers age, we yearn for the ...

Computer chips have become so tiny and complex that it’s sometimes hard to remember that there are real physical principles behind them. They aren’t just a bunch of ever-increasing numbers. For a ...

Toshiba announced a flash microcontroller that is specifically designed to meet the needs of modern home appliance applications including washing machines, dryers, and dishwashers. The TMP86FS49 ...

Will Strauss, president of Forward Concepts, said Freescale's move is part of a larger trend among microcontroller and DSP vendors to protect investments in software development by offering compatible ...

Quoting performance levels comparable to 16-bit microcontrollers, the general-purpose TMP89FS60UG/FG device is based on the company's 8-bit TLCS-870/C1 CPU core and packs 60 KB of SuperFlash, a ...

Homebrew 8-bit computers tend to have fairly limited displays, often one or more seven-segment displays and an array of LEDs to show the values of RAM or perhaps some other states of the computer.

Just five years ago, debating the merits of a 6-core CPU versus an 8-core model wasn’t possible. We were all stuck with 4-core chips at a consumer level—to break past that barrier, you had to pay ...

It's hard to overemphasize how far computers have come and how they have transformed just about every aspect of our lives. From rudimentary devices like toasters to cutting-edge devices like ...