Intel Demos a Button-Size Wearable Computer Intel Curie module - http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/wearables/wearable-soc.html Intel Curie module fact sheet - http://download.intel.com/newsroom/kits/ces/2015/pdfs/Intel_CURIE_Module_Factsheet.pdf Curie's key features A low-power, 32-bit Intel® Quark™ SE SoC 384kB Flash memory, 80kB SRAM A low-power integrated DSP sensor hub with a proprietary pattern matching accelerator Bluetooth Low Energy 6-axis combo sensor with accele...

Kermit the Frog sang the song, "It's not easy being Green". We hear more and more about technologies that are also green - green hard disk drives, green servers, and lower power chips.  Today, I was reading an article on eWeek that two of IBM's Blue Gene/Q Supercomputer prototypes appear at the top of the latest Green500 supercomputer list. You can read about the Green500 list at http://www.green500.org/home.php. For developers, Intel provides an Energy Checker SDK.  The SDK gives developers ...

Who wants more Bits (binary digits)?  I first started programming in September 1969 on an IBM 360 model 40 as a Freshman at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Computer Science Department.  The IBM 360/40 had a 16-bit data width, 32-bit general purpose registers, and 64-bit floating point registers.  I also got permission to program (using Assembler and FOCAL) on the PDP-8 (12-bit single accumulator, up to 32k of 12-bit memory words) that was in the Journalism department.  Later on, Professor Emile Attala ...