In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...

The development of caches and caching is one of the most significant events in the history of computing. Virtually every modern CPU core from ultra-low power chips like the ARM Cortex-A5 to the ...

The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is a new Zen 5 8-core/16-thread CPU from AMD using 2nd Generation 3D V-Cache, to provide a large 96MB ...

Casual PC gamers and Excel jockeys, turn back now. AMD designs its Threadripper processors to generate truly awesome levels of multi-threaded computational power, which is immediately evident with its ...

Intel’s new desktop CPUs are radically different than the Intel CPUs you’re used to. Today marks the launch of Arrow Lake, the company’s latest architecture for desktop processors, formally sold as ...

Whenever you’re building a new gaming PC, you’re going to have to decide between Intel and AMD for your processor. However, as the years go on, the right answer is constantly changing. For instance, ...

The Intel Core i7-12700K is the last gen Intel Core i7 processor from Intel that offers decent overall performance, stellar gaming, and multi-threading capabilities across a 12-core CPU (8P + 4E) ...