You've likely noticed notes about cores and threads when shopping for a new processor, but you may not realize they're two ...

Tathagata serves as a tech journalist at XDA, where he delves into the intricacies of hardcore computer hardware. Leveraging his past experience in hardware inventory management, he offers a distinct ...

The new Intel Alder Lake CPUs include P-core and E-cores (performance and efficiency cores) so Intel created Thread Director to manage all of those cores and threads more efficiently than ever before.

Processor architectures are beginning to hit performance ceilings both in terms of shrinking substrate geometry and increasing clock speeds. Consequently, Engineers are having to look at other ways to ...

From the moment you decide that your current Intel processor just isn’t up to par and start investigating an upgrade to your current laptop or desktop, you’re often bombarded with technical jargon.

Rumor has it: With its "Arrow Lake" processors, Intel could ditch its familiar core-doubling technology. The upside of such a radical move might surprise you. I have been interested in science and ...

If you want to stress test and benchmark your new CPU inside of 3DMark, you can now finally do just that with UL Benchmarks' latest update to 3DMark. The new 3DMark CPU Profile will test your CPU ...

ZombieLoad is similar to previous “side channel” attacks, which trick Intel processors into coughing up potentially sensitive information that otherwise would be kept private by the CPU. The exploit ...

Sony's Playstation 5 uses a custom AMD Zen 2 CPU with a variable clock speed of 3.5 GHz to operate, which is pretty good, ...

Imagine an alpinist climbing within 100 feet of a summit and being told he could go no farther without a special pass. Or a chef being informed that the transcendent ingredient in her signature dish ...

A new entry on the SiSoftware database shows an unannounced Intel 12th Gen processor featuring Intel's hybrid processor architecture, Alder Lake. This Alder Lake-S processor spotted on SiSoftware ...