Welcome, and thanks for reading this issue of Fast Company’s Plugged In. On August 22, President Donald Trump announced via Truth Social that the U.S. federal government had acquired 10% of Intel. The ...

The history of Intel’s 8008 processor. Insight into the x86 architecture. Lasting legacy with modern applications. Computer Terminal Corporation (now defunct Datapoint) launched the DataPoint 3300 ...

Bottom line: Unlike other tech giants like Microsoft and Google, Intel's bottom line is hurting this year. The company saw a $2.8 billion loss in Q1 – the worst in its history and a major hit at a ...

To celebrate the 40th birthday of the Intel 4004 -- the first single-chip CPU -- we're going to take a look at the history of Intel's microprocessors. We'll start with the 4004 but quickly move onto ...

PragmatIC Semiconductor’s recent announcement about developing a flexible version of the 6502 processor takes tech history buffs on the road to nostalgia. The 8-bit processor and its variants became ...

I don't think they've revealed *THE* problem with their 10nm process, but it seems to essentially be that they are having so many defects on it that they can't make reasonably large chips or chips ...

If you want to buy a new CPU for your desktop PC these days, you're pretty much limited to AMD or Intel processors. But four decades ago, the CPU market was quite different and far more diverse, with ...

The tech sector is suffering a bit of a down. This much we already knew, what with Intel bleeding cash and Google, Dell and others bleeding, well, people. But according to Mercury Research when it ...