Blueshift’s BlueFive RISC-V processor addresses Memory and Energy Walls BlueFive claims faster calculations, lower energy use via data optimization Validated design integrates memory controller, CPU ...

Photographer Mark Richards explores the beauty and complexity of the earliest computing machines. Manufactured by the Nippon Electric Company (NEC), the drum-based machine was one of the earliest ...

Reason Magazine has a nice review of a book having images from various vintage computers. It is not online yet. Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers is from Chronicle Books up in San ...

Linux programs, when they misbehave, produce core dumps. The reason they have that name is that magnetic core memory was the primary storage for computers back in the old days and many of us still ...

A $450 serrated knife may slice a loaf just as cleanly as one that costs less than $50. But the benefits of the more lavish blade—quality, ergonomics, sheer prettiness—might make it worth the expense.

If you want read-only memory today, you might be tempted to use flash memory or, if you want old-school, maybe an EPROM. But there was a time when that wasn’t feasible. [Igor Brichkov] shows us how to ...