Mini PCs are awesome because of their versatility, and when you marry them with an open-source operating system like Linux, ...

Are my Intel-based PC apps going to work on an Arm-based Windows laptop? Yes, they will. If the developer has created a separate codebase for the Arm version of their app, even better.

The latest generations of Intel processors, including Xeon chips, and AMD's older microarchitectures on Linux are vulnerable to new speculative execution attacks that bypass existing ‘Spectre ...

Intel was feeling particularly proprietary about the X86 architecture because it had been extending it for two decades at this point. Intel created the progenitor of the X86 architecture back in 1971 ...

The 1971 Intel 4004 is essentially a calculator processor. This processor only had 2,600 transistors, whereas computers today have literally billions of these switches, which is why you can play video ...

He took the design and capabilities of the Intel 4004 chip to create a "PC" running Linux. The only catch is that booting up the rig took 4.76 days. Which is unusable.

That machine had a 32-bit MIPS R3000 processor running at 8 MHz; the Intel 4004 works in 4-bit nibbles and runs at 790 KHz. Yes, that's 0.79 MHz.

Yes, over half a century ago now, the Intel 4004 appeared in all its 4-bit glory (with its successor being the Intel 8080, later leading to the famous 8086 processor, ushering in the x86 era).

The hacking pro's latest project was the self-imposed challenge of getting Linux to run on an Intel 4004 from 1971. It was Intel's first commercial chip and predates Linux by two decades.