Back in the early days of desktop computing, prior to the rise of the color monitor, the microprocessor—the general-purpose number-crunching hardware that acts as the “brains” of a computer—was ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. When it comes to the ...

A Graphics Processing Unit is a chip that handles any functions relating to what displays on your computer's screen. Every computer today has some form of GPU. A new GPU can speed up your computer, ...