The 24-core Core Ultra 9 285K broke the 5,000-point barrier in the single-threaded test, scoring ahead of Apple's M3 processor and AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X Intel's forthcoming flagship CPU, the Core Ultra ...

Designers everywhere face ever increasing constraints on system cost and power consumption, while at the same time being required to add more performance and functionality to their designs. This is a ...

AMD's Bulldozer is finally here, after years of development -- and its performance is significantly worse than anyone expected. The situation is ugly enough that it may explain why so many executives ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The CPU is the beating heart of a desktop computer. Whether it's a blazing-fast gaming rig or a workstation designed for crunching through ...

For years, AMD's Threadripper series has been synonymous with brute-force multi-core power. With the new Ryzen Threadripper 9980X, AMD is sharpening that edge even further, bringing 64 cores and 128 ...

Nvidia has been producing enterprise-grade CPUs to complement its capable GPUs for a while now, but it's never released anything in the consumer space. That may be set to change, though, as the ...

The key to the Virtual Processor Element (VPE) approach used in the MIPS 34K core is a set of extensions of the processor's basic instruction set architecture, rather than a specific set of hardware ...