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Sunny Skies Ahead for Cloud Computing
When the global economy began to falter, the tech sector seemed untouchable. A few months later, the tech industry began to see the effects from the downturn. Even companies like Microsoft and Google...
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End of the Line for Moore’s Law?
R. Colin Johnson at EE Times wrote that Moore’s Law is once again being predicted at the end of its life — but this time, the word is coming from an IBM Fellow named Carl Anderson. Anderson, who’s...
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Mega Episode and Video Games – TechStuff Podcast Roundup
Hey there! This week was an eventful one for me and Chris at HowStuffWorks.com. On top of the podcasting, blogging, social networking and article writing, Chris and I tested a new project: TechStuff...
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In 20 years, this will be a $500 machine – today it is a monster that runs...
IBM has announced a mainframe that can act like 100,000 virtual machines, each acting as a web server, database engine, even a Windows machine, or whatever you need to build out the data center for a...
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Blast from the Past – Understanding how the world’s first transistor works
Here is an outstanding video that explains how the world’s first transistor works, as well as all subsequent transistors. This invention made possible everything from portable radios to the...
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Blast from the past – reverse engineering the 6502 microprocessor
Back in the early 1980s, the 6502 microprocessor dominated the microprocessor landscape. The 6502 powered everything from the Apple II to the Nintendo NES. It contained just a few thousand transistors...
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Blast from the Past – How Integrated Circuits (chips) Work
The following video takes us back to Fairchild Semiconductors in 1967, as the age of integrated circuits is getting underway. It is talking about integrated circuits that contain 20 components...
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How fast is Nvidia’s new 4-core Kal-el Tegra processor for Tablets and...
This week Nvidia announced its latest Tegra processor for Tablet computers and smartphones. The chip has 4 cores, which appears to be a first in this class of CPUs. This gives it unprecedented power,...
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Intel Pushes Microprocessors Into the Third Dimension
The news is out — Intel has developed a three-dimensional approach to transistor design for microprocessors. This is an important step in microarchitecture design. Moore’s Law predicts that the number...
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