Some of the most interesting projects in computing are the "Just for fun," builds that individuals dream up. A year and a half ago, we met the Megaprocessor, a room-scale CPU implementation with each ...

In 2020 researchers fine-tuned a GPT-2 model to design fragments of logic circuits; in 2023 researchers used GPT-4 to help design an 8-bit processor with a novel instruction set; by 2024, a variety of ...

Not content with your new, 1.4-billion-transistor Ivy Bridge processor? Maybe it runs too hot, or lacks the polygon-pushing powers that you require? Well, I've got just the thing for you: How about ...

The time has come. You want to build your own computer from scratch, but there’s a small problem: you have no idea where to start. We’re not going to lie to you, building a computer from scratch is ...

[James Sharman] designed and built his own 8-bit computer from scratch using TTL logic chips, including a VGA adapter, and you can watch it run a glorious rotating cube demo in the video below. The ...