Even with ten fingers to work with, math can be hard. Microprocessors, with the silicon equivalent of just two fingers, can have an even harder time with calculations, often taking multiple machine ...

[Michael Wessel] found some of his old DOS 3D graphics software and tried to run it on an 8088 PC. The tale of adding an 8087 co-processor to speed up the rendering was anything but straightforward, ...

Shanghai, China — Dual core? That's so old school at the University of Tokyo, which recently finished work on a 512-core chip in collaboration with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Alchip ...

Apple Inc.’s hardware engineers have had a busy past year, judging by the latest leak about its 2019 product launch roadmap. Bloomberg reported today that the company is preparing to introduce three ...

Kindof a weird request, I know. I'd like to have an 8087 math coprocessor to put into my 8088-2 based system. Yes, the computer works and is going to have ...