Driven by relentless growth in big data storage and analytics, cloud-based AI use cases and the wholesale migration of HPC workloads to the cloud for cost and scalability reasons, the hyperscale data ...

A lot of components have to work together to get the best performance out of a computer, but the most important is usually its processor. Intel's processor chips are in most of the computers you'll ...

The speed race is over. Faced with the growing energy consumption andexcessive operating temperatures caused by high CPU clock speeds,microprocessor vendors have adopted a new approach to boosting ...

The first commercial microprocessor was the Intel 4004, which was introduced in 1971. This device had a 4-bit CPU with a 4-bit data bus and a 12-bit address bus (the data and address buses were ...

Examine a computer-controlled machine built in the last 20 years and you’ll note a common design practice. The machine’s real-time control functions, its vision system (if there is one), and its human ...

Is multithreading better than multi-core? Is multi-core better thanmultithreading? One might as well ask whether a diesel engine is betterthan four-wheel drive! The best vehicle for a given ...

The first smartphones with dual-core processors reached the market in 2010. Before that smartphones used single-core processors maxing out at around 1.4GHz. Since then the number of cores has grown ...