The new year started off with a bang for private semiconductor companies, with 18 garnering mega funding rounds exceeding $100 million, and two, Rapidus and Cerebras, reaching the $1 billion mark.

Before there was an iPod, an iPhone, an iPad, or an Apple Watch—before there was a Macintosh or Apple II or even an Apple-1—there were a couple of kids who came of age in Silicon Valley in the late ...

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A microcontroller is a small, low-cost computer-on-a-chip that is designed to perform a specific set of tasks. It is used in a variety of applications, including controlling machines, sensing and ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Vikram-32 has been built primarily for satellites and rockets. Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday presented India's first indigenously developed Vikram-32-bit chip ...

The SCELBI-8H was a personal computer that came in a kit form or assembled. It featured the 8-bit Intel 8008 CPU and 1,024 bytes of memory. The computer had its launch date in 1974, during the same ...

The Intel 8080A chip, introduced in 1974, is widely regarded by engineers as the first commercially viable general-purpose microprocessor. It marked a milestone in computing history, revolutionizing ...