When we refer to the size of a computer or component, we might be talking about its capacity, speed or connectors. Or we could be talking about its dimensions—how much physical space it occupies on ...

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. The iPad, launched in 2010, kicked off the post-PC era. The combination of a multitouch display and keyboard-less ...

Motherboards exemplify what is perhaps the most rigorous application of form factors. Here, form factor describes a specification that includes the overall length and width of the board, the ...

Power-electronics design involves a multiplicity of tradeoffs that can be guided by criteria that are useful in assessing how close a design is to optimum. This article surveys some common guiding ...

Shares of semiconductor testing company FormFactor (NASDAQ:FORM) fell 29.5% in the pre-market session after the company reported a disappointing quarter, with EPS and adjusted operating income missing ...

Madison Investments, an investment advisor, released its “Madison Small Cap Fund” second-quarter 2024 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. In the second quarter, the fund ...

Palm sized or pint sized, PCs are getting smaller, more powerful and more capable. Micro ATX motherboards and mini ITX motherboards for X86 processors, as well as tiny single board computers that run ...

You don’t have to look back very far in time to recall a vastly different mobile market with a wide array of offerings. Smartphones and feature phones alike came in all many different shapes and sizes ...