That said, there’s no harm in trying, so The 8-Bit Guy is currently working with a few dev boards, specifically one designed around the 65816 CPU. The 65816 is an interesting chip, in that it is ...
You have the same problem trying to learn CPU design. Grappling with the design of a 16-bit CPU with a straightforward data path is hard enough. Throw in modern superscalar execution, pipelining ...
First used in the IBM AT in 1984, Intel's 286 was a 16-bit CPU that addressed 16MB of memory. ATs were just faster XTs, and memory above 1MB was rarely used for applications until Windows 3.0 ...
An AMD engineer says that the firm's new Strix Halo gaming CPUs use modified Zen 5 chips to balance power use without risking ...