Introduction Over more than three decades, Arm evolved into a leading CPU architecture supplier for smartphones and embedded devices, licensing CPU architectures and core designs to customers such as ...

A render diagram of a new AMD Ryzen CPU has purportedly leaked online, showing a radically different CPU structure to the company's current CPUs. The diagram reportedly shows one of AMD's new Strix ...

As AI systems become increasingly agentic and autonomous, CPU demand may expand dramatically alongside GPUs, rather than ...

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 ...

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 ...

The release of next-gen gaming CPUs is inherently tied to the development of new breakthroughs in CPU manufacturing and design. One such step towards a future Intel CPU design has seemingly been ...

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 ...

Why shouldn’t a company known for the most powerful GPUs make the CPUs that power our next-gen gaming laptops? Nvidia might be gearing up to answer that question with the N1X chip, the beefier version ...

Recap: Intel introduced its first x86 processor architecture in 1978 with the 8086 microprocessor. A few years later, the company made history again with the 80286 – a CPU so successful that it ...

Have you ever wondered what those confusing letters and numbers at the end of the CPU mean? Every year, Intel and AMD release new generations of their CPUs with updated specifications and sometimes ...