Haven't really put much thought into CPUs lately, but had this come up and I'm disappointed my Google-fu did not find a good answer I remember hyper-threading, where a core was 'pseudo-divided' into ...

Q: Looking at common CPUs for PC building and the specs for the upcoming next-generation consoles, I’ve found myself wondering: Will we need 8-core, 16-thread CPUs for gaming soon? No, not in the near ...

Does the fact that there are two threads running simultaneously on a single core slow one or both threads down as compared to having that only one thread running on a single core? I'm talking about ...

A supposed leak listed on an unsecure Chinese forum (now removed) suggests that Intel will not provide hyper-threading technology on its ninth-generation Core i7-9700K processor. This news is notable ...

The Intel Core Ultra 9 285K is the new flagship in Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake desktop CPU line-up, which is expected to be announced and unveiled this week. As part of the company's Core Ultra Series ...

AMD announced some third-generation Ryzen processors for both laptops and desktops at CES. To date, the highest-end model announced is an eight-core, 16-thread CPU with PCIe 4.0 support, codenamed ...

As we've come to learn recently, there are four new hardware vulnerabilities that affect Intel processors. These new flaws allow attackers to leak confidential data by exploiting microarchitectural ...

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 ...

Intel has been having a bear of a time keeping Coffee Lake Refresh processors that have not yet been released under wraps. Leak after leak have provided curious folks such as ourselves with unofficial ...

Purchase the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X 12 Core CPU on Amazon for $377, which is $122 or 24% off the normal retail price of $499. The 12-core, 24-thread design of the 9900X distributes a large amount of work ...

Within a matter of months, Intel will introduce its first Alder Lake processors, effectively marking a near wholesale transition to hybrid computing, and kicking off the DDR5 memory era. From an ...

AMD’s 32-core Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX is arguably the most powerful “consumer” CPU ever sold (for all the gory details, read our review). But most-powerful doesn’t always mean it’s a must-have in ...