It's been a long time since MHz were the only part of a CPU's specification that concerned people. Manufacturers take different approaches to CPU design, even when using the same architecture. That ...

Processors by AMD continue to use the same performance rating system that compares them to the old style clock speed product names of Intel processors. AMD's performance ratings do at first seem ...

Conventional wisdom says that choosing between a GPU versus CPU architecture for running scientific visualization workloads or irregular code is easy. GPUs have long been the go-to solution, although ...

Penryn. Nehalem. Phenom. Fusion. Inside these four cryptic code names lies the future of computer desktop processing for 2008. Ultimately, however, it’s all about the epic, age-old battle between chip ...

In today’s ever-evolving coding landscape, where efficiency, performance and sustainability are paramount, the impact of inefficient code on CPU utilization is a constant debate among software ...

Intel has released microcode updates for several generations of mobile, desktop, and server CPUs to fix a vulnerability that can be exploited to trigger at the very least a denial-of-service condition ...