Over the years there have been a few CPUs designed to directly run a high-level programming language, the most common ...

Although something that’s taken for granted these days, the ability to perform floating-point operations in hardware was, for ...

The CPU is a simple stack virtual machine with a specialized reduced instruction set. Execution algorithm: The VM fetches an opcode from system memory pointed by CS:IP. There is a table of instruction ...

This is a minimalist 4-bit CPU implemented in the infamous Paul Falstad's CircuitJS (source code). It is Turing complete leveraging a jump-with-carry instruction. With a total of 16 4-bit words (8 ...

Intel is preparing to release a critical microcode update aimed at resolving an issue that has affected its 13th Gen processors since their launch. The update, expected by mid-August, comes after ...