The CPU Shack
A museum for the history of processors and CPUs and how they have changed our world. Includes Intel, AMD as well as lesser known companies such as Signetics.
- By John Culver
- Based in United States of America
- Roughly six posts per year
- First post on
Posts per year
| Year starting | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 10 |
| 2023 | 6 |
| 2024 | 2 |
Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.
Most recent posts
In 1974 National Semiconductor introduced what is arguably the first 16-bit microprocessor (it had a 8-bit mode as well which was more efficient but could run 16-bits as well). This chip was made on a …
About a year ago Mats Danielson from Stockholm Sweden contacted the CPU Shack about an interesting project, documenting the history of Philips Data Systems, a former powerhouse of European computing. Previously we wrote about the …
In 1966, American engineer and inventor Robert Dennard invented dynamic RAM cells – single-transistor cells, each bit of information is stored in the form of an electric charge of a capacitor. By that time, MOS …