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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article is part of the TechXchange: Chiplets - Electronic Design Automation Insights. According to Intel, its latest data-center CPU, which packs up to 64 cores spread out over a pair of chiplets ...

Would you pay to give your PC's hardware a little boost? Intel's certainly hoping you will, as it's currently piloting an upgrade program that will unlock features on the CPU you already own. At the ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a nutshell: We all know it's the GPU that does the heavy lifting with ray tracing in games. With dedicated compute units primed for rendering those realistic rays of light, the idea of running ray ...