People are often tempted to upgrade their crucial PC components, like their CPU and GPU ... Most games rarely push modern CPUs to their limits in terms of core usage. I'm not saying more cores ...

Inside every modern CPU since the Intel Pentium fdiv bug ... that made an encryption routine fail when another particular multiplication was done. While this may not sound like much, if you ...

Rather than building on the legacy of x86, the team is betting on RISC-V, which they believe is better suited to the demands ...

High-end AMD processors take top billing in our rankings of the best gaming CPUs, but most people should get the cheapest somewhat modern CPU that can fit into their system. Right now, that CPU is ...

In a new two-parter on GPUs, Phil Rhodes explores why the GPU has not yet made the CPU obsolete, and the times in which the sheer performance of a modern GPU gives you the best computing option ...

There's a lot of debate about what the best CPU is at the moment, mainly because Intel and AMD can't stop releasing new ones. Although it can be difficult to keep up with the latest and greatest ...

The Spectre flaws abuse a CPU function in modern processors that use something known as “speculative execution” to maximize chip performance. “Spectre attacks involve inducing a victim to ...