Like the rest of us, 8-bit hardware is not getting any newer, and failed ROMs are just a fact of life. Of course you can’t call up Commadore corporation for replacement parts anymore, so something is ...

Here’s something fun from our hacker [Piers]: Software Defined ROMs. In this series of three videos, [Piers] runs us through what a software defined ROM is, how to make them, and then how to use them.

Today's system-on-a-chip (SOC) designs typically contain micro-controllers, digital signal processors, memories, peripherals, and physical interface connections to external devices in a single package ...

GENEVA–STMicroelectronics today (Feb. 12) announced its entry into the DVD-ROM chip market with the development of an integrated solution containing all of the functions for drives except actuator ...

I have an 8100 board I'd like to get up and running for use as a server. But it doesn't have the ROM chip on board. A local shop has 6100s for $20 which is cheaper than I found the chip for anywhere ...

Memory chipmaker Macronix International has reported August revenue increased 19.2% sequentially to a four-month high of NT$2.6 billion (US$81.1 million), buoyed mainly by a pick-up in ROM chip orders ...

Josh Hihath is trying to fuse biology and electrical engineering and to build new types of electronic memory based on DNA. Hihath, professor in the UC Davis Department of Electrical and Computer ...

MegaChips has announced that Macronix International will build a new production facility to manufacture chips for Nintendo's upcoming video game platforms, the GameCube and the Game Boy Advance. The ...