With silicon clock scaling largely dead thanks to the laws of physics, computer scientists and chip designers have had to search for performance improvements in other areas -- typically by improving ...

Intel’s cheapest desktop CPUs are now faster than AMD's, and Team Red is feeling pressure across the sub-$200 market.

Last week AMD’s Zen 5 architecture arrived to mixed reception on the desktop. KitGuru has reviewed the new Zen 5 Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X, and now we are moving on to the grunty Ryzen 9, ...

From CPUs that overheated to those with poor performance—plus some that nearly killed the companies that made them.

Whereas the company had previously counted each core as a full processor, it will now count each core of a multi-core chip as three-quarters of a processor. That would mean that Oracle 10g Enterprise ...

Intel’s 14th-generation desktop processors were a mild update on top of a mild update: a barely faster revision of the 13th-gen Core CPUs, which were themselves a modest tweak to 2021’s 12th-gen Core ...

Buying multicore servers raises two new questions for enterprises: How do you avoid punitive software licensing, and which applications need multicore processors? Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and ...

I knew this was coming — I just didn’t expect it to happen quite just yet. It turns out that some of the best processors are on their way toward retirement, because eight-core CPUs are slowly becoming ...

AMD is working on a mysterious dual-cache Ryzen processor, and early benchmarks give us a glimpse of what its bigger L3 cache ...

Intel will preview a multicore future this week during the Fall Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco as it tries to leave behind a tumultuous year plagued by product delays and road-map revisions.