After Samsung said the Galaxy S26 Ultra would launch with a 10-bit display, the company has now confirmed it uses 8-bit technology instead.

Dozens of 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) inhabit the average new automobile, which says something about both 8-bit MCUs and automobiles. Today's automobiles are nothing like their predecessors. Whereas ...

Brought to you by CineFix, which has also made an eight-bit version of The Walking Dead The Titanic finished sinking 103 years ago Wednesday. (Technically, it started sinking on the 14th, when it ...

The video game industry has changed a lot in the 35 years since the U.S. launch of the Nintendo Entertainment System. From online gaming to virtual reality, there’s a lot that the inventors of the NES ...

Do some inflection points make as much sound as one hand clapping? It seems that way. Why else would so many device manufacturers still use 8- or 16-bit processors, when modern 32- and 64-bit ...

Building a CPU out of logic gates is a great way to learn about the inner workings of microprocessors, and we’ve seen several impressive projects in this area. [c0pperdragon] set himself the task of ...

Most people’s memories of programming in the 8-bit era revolve around BASIC, and not without reason. Most of the time, it was all we had. On the other hand, there were other options if you sought them ...

Eight-bit microcontrollers-called that because they operate on data eight bits at a time-continue to dominate the microcontroller market, although 32-bit controllers are showing faster market growth.