Photographer Mark Richards explores the beauty and complexity of the earliest computing machines. Manufactured by the Nippon Electric Company (NEC), the drum-based machine was one of the earliest ...

In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...

We’ve seen a few retro products using core rope memory, such as telephone autodiallers. Obviously, we’ve covered the Apollo program computers, but we don’t think we’ve seen a complete and functional ...

Tessent MemoryBIST from Siemens EDA provides a complete solution for at-speed test, diagnosis, repair, debug and characterization of embedded memories. Leveraging a flexible hierarchical architecture, ...

Modern artificial intelligence systems operate with a fundamental paradox: they demonstrate remarkable reasoning capabilities while simultaneously suffering from systematic amnesia. Large language ...