On one level there seems to be a battle going on at the moment for who can dream up the oddest name for their microprocessor development tools. On another more technical level things are hotting up.

The Geniatech XPI-7110 is a credit card-sized single-board computer that bears more than a passing resemblance to a Raspberry Pi: it has a similar shape, size, and set of ports and connectors, ...

If you’ve ever experimented with a microprocessor at the bare metal level, you’ll know that when it starts up, it will look at its program memory for something to do. On an old 8-bit machine, that ...