If your handheld runs hot or drains battery quickly, turning off CPU Boost could help deliver smoother performance in ...

CPU design has been undergoing something of a shake-up recently, what with the addition of NPUs into the mix and some radical configurations and chip construction techniques to optimise them. Flow ...

Sony's new PS5 Pro is expected to deliver surprising upgrades including a beefy 45% GPU performance increase, but the CPU hasn't been adjusted much. New PlayStation 5 Pro spec leaks paint an ...

AMD has officially launched its high-end Ryzen 9000 CPUs: the Ryzen 9 9950X, 9900X, 9700X, and 9600X. They offer the pinnacle of performance for the AM5 platform, aside from gaming, where the Zen 4 ...

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Although Moore’s Law has slowed at bit as chip makers reach the physical limits of transistor size, researchers are having to look to other things other than cramming more transistors on a chip to ...

The next-gen Intel Lunar Lake CPUs will be for ultra-low mobile power systems, which will succeed the current-gen Core Ultra 100U "Meteor Lake" CPUs that we've seen deployed since CES 2024 earlier ...

If you've got relatively modern hardware in your PC and want to get more performance out of it, undervolting your GPU is a ...

NC State researchers have developed an approach that will allow future "fused" processors that include both CPU and GPU to leverage the GPU's processing power to boost overall chip performance. But ...

The first commercial microprocessor, Intel's 4004, debuted in 1971 with 2,300 transistors, a 108-kHz system clock and a 4-bit bus. Since then, chip architects have increased the computational ...