First published May 14, 1997. Intel finally went public on the radical new architecture required by the Pentium II processor last week. Banging the drum for the Dual Independent Bus (DIB) architecture ...

All computing devices, from smartphones to supercomputers, pass data back and forth along electronic channels called "buses." You can think about the buses like freeways, in that having additional ...

Sometimes cultures collide. Microprocessor design has always emphasized clock frequency, hand design and careful tuning at the circuit level. SoC design emphasizes floor planning, synthesized blocks ...