Computer chips have become so tiny and complex that it’s sometimes hard to remember that there are real physical principles behind them. They aren’t just a bunch of ever-increasing numbers. For a ...

Sammyuri's CHUNGUS 2 (Computational Humongous Unconventional Number and Graphics Unit) isn't the first 8-bit micro built in Minecraft, but it's one of the most ambitious. The 3-operand, RISC processor ...

A Minecraft player has successfully built an 8-bit processor inside the video game in an impressive and meta demo, as spotted by PCWorld. The master crafter, who goes by the handle “Sammyuri,” built ...

The term "Bit Slicing" was once dominant in history books as a technique for constructing a processor from processor modules of smaller bit width where each of these components processes one field or ...