Hackaday

Computer Has One Instruction, Many Transistors

There’s always some debate around what style of architecture is best for certain computing applications, with some on the RISC side citing performance per watt and some on the CISC side citing ...
C&EN

Researchers build a rudimentary DNA-based computer

For the first time, a multidisciplinary team of researchers have demonstrated a proof of principle of all the capabilities needed for a functioning computer—storing, retrieving, processing, erasing, ...
EDN

Building a 4-Bit Computer: The Instruction Set

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 ...
Inverse

Scientists Broke a Major Computer Design Barrier — And It Could Change Tech As We Know It

Even if you’ve never taken a coding class, you’ve probably heard of computer programming languages like Python, C++, JavaScript, and HTML. (Bonus points if you’re familiar with Swift and PHP.) ...
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First of Its Kind DNA Computer Can Both Store Data And Solve Problems

For billions of years, life has used long molecules of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, to store information and solve problems. Today engineers are putting their own spin on DNA computing, to both ...