A Somewhat Brief History of the Internet
The series of tubes which we all now spend way too much time on started out as a DoD program in 1969 to connect computers over the existing phone network...
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Tag: history
Interview: A Short History of AMD During K6 and K7 Days
Kevin Krewell, an industry analyst and former AMD employee, joins Josh Walrath to discuss their internal and external observations of the release of AMD's most important processor architecture, which cemented its place…
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Report: Intel i7-8086K Anniversary Edition CPU Listed by Retailers
The 40th anniversary of the original Intel 8086 microprocessor launch is just days away (June 8), and ahead of this VideoCardz.com has posted screen captures of online listings for...
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Sure it is still 1’s and 0’s but a lot has changed in 25 years
A question was asked of Dan Luu about what new tricks silicon has learned since the early days of the eighties. The answer covers a gamut of what tools those who work…
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10 years ago saw AMD reach x64
AMD64 arrived a decade ago with the launch of the first Opteron processor in April of 2003, back in the days when NVIDIA made motherboards and ATI was a separate...
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Grab a sprite and take a graphical trip down memory lane
TechSpot has jsut published an article looking at the history of the GPU over the past decades, from the first NTSC capable cards, through the golden 3DFX years straight through to the…
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Not quite older than dirt; the microprocessor turns 40
Intel's 8080, 8086 and 8088 might ring a few bells for some readers, but how many remember the 4-bit 4004 that started it all 40 years ago. SemiAccurate takes a quick…
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