So now I have a dual Xeon machine. Primarily because I do lots of Photoshop and video encoding work, and second because I really wanted one for the heck of it. Or is it the other way around?<BR>I am ...

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 ...

In this lighthearted yet insightful dive, we unpack the fascinating world of CPUs—those tiny but mighty chips powering everything from your smartphone to supercomputers. Over 15 minutes of ...

AMD argues that as AI systems move toward agentic and multi-step reasoning, CPUs are becoming central to performance.

For more than three decades, modern CPUs have relied on speculative execution to keep pipelines full. When it emerged in the 1990s, speculation was hailed as a breakthrough — just as pipelining and ...

With a plethora of options out there thanks to renewed competition between Intel and AMD across various silicon-based frontiers of late, end-users have become the ultimate beneficiaries of innovations ...

For developers, threading is an important issue that impacts game performance. Here's how task scheduling works in Apple Silicon games. Demands on GPU and CPUs are some of the most compute-intensive ...