Why shouldn’t a company known for the most powerful GPUs make the CPUs that power our next-gen gaming laptops? Nvidia might ...

It’s been almost two years since AMD introduced its Ryzen 7000 series desktop CPUs and the Zen 4 CPU architecture. Today, AMD is announcing the first concrete details about their successors. The Ryzen ...

With up to 288MB of L3 cache, compared to just 96MB in the AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D, the new Intel Core Ultra 400 lineup is finally shaping up.

Discussions about CPUs often frame one instruction set architecture (ISA) against another—x86 vs. Arm, Arm vs. RISC-V, and so on. However, it’s common to use multiple CPU architectures in a single ...

In just a week, we went from only having one option for AI PCs, or what Microsoft calls Copilot+PC, to three. At Computex, Intel announced the new Core Ultra system-on-chip (SoC) codenamed Lunar Lake ...

As April 2026 comes to a close, the market has seen an influx of high-performance smartphones featuring the latest chipsets.

Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today launched an industry group dedicated to improving the x86 instruction set architecture. Besides the two chipmakers, the consortium, announced at the ...

The design, verification, and implementation of a processor is the core competence of some companies, but others just want to whip up a small processor as quickly and cheaply as possible. What tools ...

Optimizing any system is a multi-layered problem, but when it involves a processor there are at least three levels to consider. Architects must be capable of thinking across these boundaries because ...