As the saying goes, hindsight is 20/20. It may surprise you that the microchip that we all know and love today was far from an obvious idea. Some of the paths that were being explored back then to ...

ASICs boost performance and reduce energy for specific tasks better than general chips. They vary in design from semi-custom to fully specialized, affecting cost and performance. Tech giants like ...

In the early digital era, logic gates were made exclusively of transistors and discrete components. The obvious occupation of a large space and increased heat dissipation pushed technology to ...