If you're looking to buy a new laptop or desktop computer, one of the things you should keep an eye out for is the processor's generation. The generation tells you the CPU's iteration and how new and ...

There's Intel and AMD on the x86 side, with Apple and Qualcomm making Arm-based processors on the other. We break down the advantages and drawbacks of each to help you pick the right chip for your ...

Zen 5 processors make use of an improved branch prediction system with dual decode pipes. This change enables significantly higher throughput for the branch prediction engine, and AMD said it also ...

What’s the real difference between a CPU, GPU, TPU, DPU, and QPU? In this quick and clear explainer, we walk through how each type of processor works, what it’s best at, and how they’re shaping the ...

An interesting detail about the Intel 8087 floating point processor (FPU) is that it’s a co-processor that shares a bus with the 8086 or 8088 CPU and system memory, which means that somehow ...