If I have a computer with a 2.66GHz quad-core processor, will it run my software and games faster than my 3.2GHz single-core Pentium 4? Yes, quad-core CPUs are generally much faster than single-core ...

AMD announced its first barrage of Zen 5 CPUs at Computex, unveiling a four-chip lineup ranging from a six-core CPU to a 16-core chip. Those CPUs have yet to officially launch, though, as they're ...

Researchers at Sungkyunkwan Univ. & Kyungnam Univ. design a multi-core migration methodology and apply it to a real-world AUTOSAR-based engine ECU from HYUNDAI. “As multiple functions have been added ...

Intel is preparing to launch its next-generation Arrow Lake desktop platform later this year, so the trickle of early benchmark results has begun. Given the company's current problems with Raptor Lake ...

A chip with one CPU (one processing unit). Microprocessors have been single core since their inception in the early 1970s. After the turn of the century, chips with two or more CPUs emerged. See dual ...

Intel announced technical details about its next-generation Core CPUs a few months ago. Codenamed Meteor Lake, the chips are good and bad news for Intel’s chip manufacturing ambitions—they’re ...

AMD's Ryzen 9000 series of desktop processors based on Zen 5 will be releasing to retail later this month and as we wait, leaked benchmarks have begun piling up. One of the latest unofficial benchmark ...

Fancy, expensive processors are fun, but for most people who just want to build a decent middle-of-the-road PC for gaming (and anything else), the best advice is usually to buy a Core i5 or Ryzen 5 ...