Lego packs an electronics platform with 3D magnetic tracking, multi-radio communication, and inductive charging into a brick. Patents reveal how.

Continuing his reverse-engineering of the Intel 8087, [Ken Shirriff] covers the conditional tests that are implemented in the microcode of this floating point processing unit (FPU). This microcode ...

Chipset architecture used to be split into two main chips: the Northbridge for fast stuff like the CPU and RAM, and the ...