South Korean firm will invest in an advanced packaging plant in Cheongju to expand HBM supply as AI demand tightens memory.

Continuing his reverse-engineering of the Intel 8087, [Ken Shirriff] covers the conditional tests that are implemented in the microcode of this floating point processing unit (FPU). This microcode ...

For various reasons, crypto mining has fallen to the wayside in recent years. Partially because it was never useful other ...

Researchers at Tsinghua University developed the Optical Feature Extraction Engine (OFE2), an optical engine that processes data at 12.5 GHz using light rather than electricity. Its integrated ...

Can you feel your PC or Mac running hot? We've found the best ways to check processor temps on your Windows PCs and Macs. Palash has been writing about technology (and entertainment) for over a decade ...

TL;DR: AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7 9850X3D processor offers 5% better performance than the 9800X3D and 20% more than the 7800X3D, featuring 8 cores, 16 threads, 5.6GHz clock speed, and second-gen 3D ...

The simplest case is when a homodimer has been modelled. Then, the native interface "AB" (between native chains A and B) could be compared to either the model AB interface, but also BA, as changing ...

A growing number of AI processors are being designed around specific workloads rather than standardized benchmarks, optimizing performance and power efficiency, but often with enough flexibility to ...

With AMD having attaining more than 40 percent revenue share and more than 27 percent shipment share in the X86 server CPU market in the first half of 2025, that means two things. First, AMD is ...

Casual and newer users may grossly underestimate how much of a difference heat makes on your computer's resources. Demanding games, video editing, animating, and even virtual machines could force your ...

I knew this was coming — I just didn’t expect it to happen quite just yet. It turns out that some of the best processors are on their way toward retirement, because eight-core CPUs are slowly becoming ...

It’s easy to look strictly at the type of CPU and GPU you have when evaluating the kind of performance you’re likely to get in PC games. But beyond that lies another important stat, the CPU cache.