We recently looked at the origins of the integrated circuit (IC) and the calculator, which was the IC’s first killer app, but a surprise twist is that the calculator played a big part in the invention ...

Mixed-processor systems are growing more common as standard system-on-a-chip (SoC) architectures, like the Texas Instruments (TI) OMAP, become available. OMAP combines a conventional ARM processor ...

Computers’ amazing abilities to entertain people, help them work, and even respond to voice commands are, at their heart, the results of decades of technological development and innovation in ...