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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are some components that your PC can live without, but a solid processor is not one of them. Without the CPU, your computer cannot run, period. This is why CPU failure is often a complete ...

Balancing performance, energy efficiency, and cost-effectiveness, CPUs adeptly handle the less-intensive inference tasks that make up the lion’s share of AI workloads. The vast majority of company ...

It finally happened. Intel killed Hyper-Threading on its desktop CPUs. The new Arrow Lake range, called Core Ultra 200S, ditches the simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) feature that Intel has held onto ...

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 ...