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 ...

Microprocessors are computer processors containing logic, arithmetic, and control circuitry needed for a computer’s CPU to function correctly. In essence, a microprocessor is a multipurpose, ...

CPUやGPUといったマイクロプロセッサの性能は年々向上していますが、同時に消費電力も増加する傾向にあります。世界中のデータセンターが消費する電力の合計は、2020年には世界の電力の2％に達しており、2030年までに8％を占めるまで増加すると予測されて ...

The advent of microcomputers in the 1970s has dramatically changed our society. Since then, microprocessors have been made almost exclusively from silicon, but the ever-increasing demand for higher ...

Choosing the appropriate device as the foundation for your new design can be overwhelming. The need to make the right balance of price, performance, and power consumption has many implications.

The brain of an embedded device, which is the processing unit, is a key determinant of the success or failure of the device in accomplishing the task(s) for which it is designed. The processing unit ...

Department of Gene Expression, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poznan, Poland MicroRNAs are small molecules (∼21 nucleotides ...