Once a hyperscaler or a cloud builder gets big enough, it can afford to design custom compute engines that more precisely ...

Most PC enthusiasts are excited about the possibilities of AMD's upcoming Zen processor family. AMD is promising to "drive competitive performance" with Zen, with 40 per cent greater ...

We know it's only a matter of time before Intel brings its Alder Lake architecture over to its Xeon stack. As we wait, a leaked blocked diagram may reveal an interesting change in how Intel will go ...

It's easy to think of the desktop CPU space as a duopoly: on the one hand you have Intel finally transitioning away from Skylake refresh after Skylake refresh with this year's 12th-gen Alder Lake ...

In the past you needed a CPU, a Northbridge and a Southbridge or at least three chips to make an Intel platform work. As of late 2009, Havendale will change this, as the CPU will get an integrated GPU ...

AMD has been on the offensive in its assault against Intel's dominate market share, and it is not focusing on a single battleground, either. Servers? Yep. Consumer desktops? You betcha. Gaming laptops ...

Arm Lumex CSS (Compute SubSystem) platform for mobile devices combines high-performance Arm C1 CPUs with Scalable Matrix ...

The CPU is the single most important component of any computer. Without it, you can't boot up, let alone load an operating system. Want to know what CPU is inside your PC without taking it apart? That ...

The CPU OPT header is an additional connection for special processor cooling accessories, such as specialized coolers with multiple fans or water-cooling components. Functionally, CPU OPT is identical ...

At some point, everyone learns that a CPU has a variable number of cores inside, and that number influences its performance. The next natural impulse is to find out how many cores your CPU has. The ...