A computer motherboard's bus speed has no effect on the installed CPU's speed. In a computer, the motherboard and the CPU are two separate components and do not impact the performance of one another.

Although the ability to expand a home computer with more RAM, storage and other features has been around for as long as home computers exist, it wasn’t until the IBM PC that the concept of a fully ...

Although marketing folk and laypeople may credit [Steve Jobs] as the man behind the success of Apple, those in the tech world know the real truth that without [Steve Wozniak] nothing would have ever ...

The 60X bus uses decoupled (split) address and data buses to allow address-only bus cycles used for processor-to-processor communication. This mechanism eliminates the need to arbitrate and to use the ...

Silicon densities, both for ASICs and FPGAs, can now support true systems-on-a-chip (SoCs). This level of design requires busing systems to connect various components ...

Arithmetic logic unit (ALU), which performs computation. Registers needed for the basic operation of the CPU, such as the program counter (PC), stack pointer (SP), and status register (SR). Further ...