Researchers have developed a microprocessor built on high-performance plastic rather than silicon—and they say it could enable smarter food labels and supply chain management.

For the microprocessor example, "we know exactly how transistors behave, and we can simulate them," says Shawn Mikula, a neuroscientist at the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology in Germany ...

"The capabilities of, for example, having a microprocessor of incredible capacity as a hearing aid, was not obvious in 1971," Faggin said. Intel engineer Federico Faggin.

Creating the 8080: The Processor That Started the PC Revolution If the introduction of the Intel 8008 led to a variety of interesting devices that can be considered the first early PCs, it was its ...

As NPR marks its 50th anniversary, we look back at an innovation that also changed the world in 1971: the unveiling of the first commercially produced microprocessor.

We continue our guide to high-tech architecture by looking at the Inmos Microprocessor Factory, a key example of Richard Rogers' radical inside-out buildings. Completed in 1982 in Newport, Wales ...