From the CPU’s perspective, a thread (short for “thread of execution”), is merely an ordered sequence of instructions that tell the computer what to do. In most of my articles on Ars and in my book, I ...

We all think of the CPU as the "brains" of a computer, but what does that actually mean? What is going on inside with the billions of transistors that make your computer work? In this four-part series ...

The registers inside the CPU, the machine code instruction set, and the ways in which the instructions interact with the registers and status flags are all intertwined. As you may recall, one of my ...

The Android operating system is built to run on three different types of processor architecture: Arm, Intel x86, and MIPS. The former is today’s ubiquitous architecture after Intel abandoned its ...

The CPU (Central Processing Unit) is the brain of a computer,” is a catchline most of us have been familiarised with since secondary school. After branching out into non-tech fields of work, the ...

The processor we will be considering in this tutorial is the MIPS processor. The MIPS processor, designed in 1984 by researchers at Stanford University, is a RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) ...

Take the 2017 PBS Digital Studios Survey: http://surveymonkey.com/r/pbsds2017. Today we’re going to take our first baby steps from hardware into software! Using ...