“Energy efficiency of electronic digital processors is primarily limited by the energy consumption of electronic communication and interconnects. The industry is almost unanimously pushing towards ...
The concept of a "computer on a chip" was not new when the 4004 was created, but the device proved that it was feasible to build it with the technology available in 1971, and that there was a market ...
The processors in today’s computers have grown tremendously in performance, capabilities and complexity over the past decade. Clock speed has skyrocketed, and size has dwindled, even as the number of ...