So now I have a dual Xeon machine. Primarily because I do lots of Photoshop and video encoding work, and second because I really wanted one for the heck of it. Or is it the other way around?<BR>I am ...

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 ...

For more than three decades, modern CPUs have relied on speculative execution to keep pipelines full. When it emerged in the 1990s, speculation was hailed as a breakthrough — just as pipelining and ...

AMD argues that as AI systems move toward agentic and multi-step reasoning, CPUs are becoming central to performance.

With a plethora of options out there thanks to renewed competition between Intel and AMD across various silicon-based frontiers of late, end-users have become the ultimate beneficiaries of innovations ...

There are some components that your PC can live without, but a solid processor is not one of them. Without the CPU, your computer cannot run, period. This is why CPU failure is often a complete ...

Balancing performance, energy efficiency, and cost-effectiveness, CPUs adeptly handle the less-intensive inference tasks that make up the lion’s share of AI workloads. The vast majority of company ...

Sarfraz is an avid PC enthusiast who has a decade of experience in PC hardware. He has written extensively on all types of consumer PC components and peripherals on Xtremegaminerd since the time when ...