Chuck Peddle, the patriarch of the 6502 microprocessor, died recently. Most people don’t know the effect that he and his team of engineers had on their lives. We often take the world of ...

The Intel 8088 (and its big brother 8086) processor was among the first microprocessors to implement (instruction) prefetching in hardware, which [Ken Shirriff] has analyzed based on die images ...

This feature is designed to allow customers to take advantage of the very latest ColdFire core microprocessor design methodologies -- providing benefits such as lower power dissipation and smaller die ...