The DIY personal computer space was historically dominated by Intel in Japan. As recently as 2017, the American tech company held close to an 84 percent share in the market space. The landscape began ...

Ever since Soft Machines first revealed their plans for a VISC style processor, many CPU fans have grown interested in what is essentially “reverse Hyper-Threading”. Today the CPU design house ...

A question: does anyone who was around in the early days of the 8-bit computer revolution remember a dual-CPU 6502 portable machine like this one? Or just a dual-CPU machine? Or even just a reasonably ...

I suppose the holy grail would be to bootstrap your custom CPU into a full-blown Linux system. That’s a big enough job that I haven’t done it. Although you might be more productive than I am, you ...

AMD and Intel CPUs from a vending machine? It would be weird to hear of it until you discover that this gizmo was spotted in Japan: a world-famous country for its vending machines. A group of AMD ...

A well-funded chip startup, Soft Machines, is taking the popular but abstract concept of virtual machines and applying it to the chip level. Soft Machines is debuting what it calls a Virtual ...

Built my current main machine in Jan. 2019 (first retirement build): i5-9600K, GTX 1080, 16GB memory, 650w PSU, some spinny storage and an SSD for booting. I tend to keep machines 8-10 years, with ...