You can’t fake that feeling when a $4 microcontroller dev board can stand in as cutting-edge 1980s technology. Such is the case with the working transputer that [Amen] has built using a Raspberry Pi ...

A long time before Beowulf clusters wired up with commodity Ethernet hardware became a hobbyist thing and a running joke, the ...

The 30 year-old Transputer architecture is showing no sign of running out of steam, according to STMicroelectronics which took over Transputer development after buying Inmos from Thorn-EMI in 1989 “We ...

LONDON — XMOS Ltd., a company founded by respected academic computer scientist David May, has received £625,000 (about $1.2 million) in seed funding from Prelude Trust plc. Prelude did not state ...

Multicore has been the thing ever since the industry ran out of GHz but, 35 years ago, it wasn’t. “We were 25 years early”, says David May, Professor of Computer Science at Bristol University, Fellow ...

ITworld.com – For the past, say, 20 years, we have had a period of relative homogeneity in the CPU side of the computing business. A small number of household brands such as Pentium, Sparc and PowerPC ...