We’ve read a number of histories of the IBM PC and lived through that time, too. But we enjoyed [Gareth Edwards’] perspective in a post entitled The Misfit who Built the IBM PC. The titular character ...

Matthew is a PC Hardware Writer at XDA, having previously written for Digital Trends, Tom's Hardware, and other publications since 2018. He's mainly interested in the three way fight between AMD, ...

IBM was once an almost unstoppable technology giant, controlling roughly 60–70% of business computers and pioneering ...

In the 80s and 90s, some desktop PCs included a "Turbo" button, but what it actually did was a little unclear. What was it ...

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The IBM PC was a milestone in ...

Although ARM CPUs have been making headway in several areas of computing over the last decade or so, the vast majority of desktop, laptop and server CPUs are still based on the x86 architecture. How ...

IBM is selling its PC-making business to China's largest personal computer company, Lenovo Group Ltd., for $1.25 billion, marking the US firm's retreat from an industry it helped pioneer in 1981.The ...

It requires a program of instructions...that's software. Every PC requires at least two essential bits of software in order to work at all. First it requires a computer language. That's what you type ...