Why the IBM PC Had an Open Architecture Being able to swap the parts in and out of a personal computer became the norm because of a series of decisions IBM made to get the first PC launched quickly.

A new technical paper titled “Augmenting Von Neumann’s Architecture for an Intelligent Future” was published by researchers at TU Munich and Pace University. “This work presents a novel computer ...

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I was wondering if anyone could give their thoughts on the books <I>Computer Organization and Design</I> by David Patterson and John Hennessy and <I>Computer Architecture</I> by John ...

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The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies has gone in this thirteenth edition to John Hennessy (Stanford University) and David Patterson ...

A computer architecture in which the program's instructions and the data reside in separate memory banks that are addressed independently. Named after the Mark I computer at Harvard University in the ...

AMD confirmed Thursday that its next-generation RDNA 2 graphics architecture will be its first to include hardware ray tracing, and that it will advance performance-per-watt improvements by an ...

Doug Bonderud is an award-winning writer capable of bridging the gap between complex and conversational across technology, innovation and the human condition. But AI also comes with operational ...

Improvements in productivity and expandability are just some of the reasons PC-based motion control is becoming more common. Not too long ago, programmable logic controllers (PLCs) or proprietary ...

The PC architecture is emerging as a leading computing platform for integrating all computing elements of a typical factory workcell. However, fulfilling this role effectively requires special ...

Graphics Cards Best graphics cards in 2025: I've tested pretty much every AMD and Nvidia GPU of the past 20 years and these are today's top cards Hardware PC gaming has a pricing problem, and the ...