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The release of next-gen gaming CPUs is inherently tied to the development of new breakthroughs in CPU manufacturing and design. One such step towards a future Intel CPU design has seemingly been ...

The move from x86 boxes to Nvidia's rack systems presents an opportunity for Arm and Meta to optimize existing codebases and ...

As for ray tracing, Intel has enhanced the ray tracing units on each Xe3 core with dynamic ray management for asynchronous ...

E very PC enthusiast has heard the phrase "silicon lottery" tossed around hardware circles, usually followed up by complaints ...

As I’m sure many of you know, x86 architecture has been around for quite some time. It has its roots in Intel’s early 8086 processor, the first in the family. Indeed, even the original 8086 inherits a ...

The development of caches and caching is one of the most significant events in the history of computing. Virtually every modern CPU core from ultra-low power chips like the ARM Cortex-A5 to the ...

Right now, 64-bit apps and operating systems are becoming the norm, rather than the exception, for Windows users. Microsoft stopped offering 32-bit versions of Windows to its PC OEM partners in 2020.

Overview The right CPU can boost your gaming FPS by up to 30–40%, especially in CPU-heavy titles.Intel’s 14th Gen and AMD ...

Extreme Tech has a worthwhile CPU architecture overview up. The article covers some basics of CPU architecture, like pipelining, caching, etc., and then gives a brief overview of a few modern ...