We all know, at least intellectually, that our computers are all built with lots of tiny transistors. But beyond that it’s a little hard to describe. They’re printed on a silicon wafer somehow, and ...
UNSW's complete silicon quantum computer chip in operation, by Tony Melov (UNSW). Conventional computers use bits, which can be either zero or one at a time, to store information and to perform ...
The Zilog Z80 microprocessor is an 8-bit chip that was first released in the 1970s and used in a variety of classic computers and game consoles including the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, TRS-80, and Sega ...