A mathematical circuit that performs high-speed floating point operations. Also called a "floating point unit" (FPU), the math coprocessor may be a stand-alone chip or circuits built into the CPU.

Apple Inc.’s hardware engineers have had a busy past year, judging by the latest leak about its 2019 product launch roadmap. Bloomberg reported today that the company is preparing to introduce three ...

Shanghai, China — Dual core? That's so old school at the University of Tokyo, which recently finished work on a 512-core chip in collaboration with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Alchip ...

Kindof a weird request, I know. I'd like to have an 8087 math coprocessor to put into my 8088-2 based system. Yes, the computer works and is going to have ...

[Michael Wessel] found some of his old DOS 3D graphics software and tried to run it on an 8088 PC. The tale of adding an 8087 co-processor to speed up the rendering was anything but straightforward, ...