CPU stands for Central Processing Unit. It is the brain of a computer because it handles all the tasks that a user performs on his/her computer. All the arithmetic and logical calculations required to ...

Today we’re going to build the ticking heart of every computer. Take the 2017 PBS Digital Studios Survey: http://surveymonkey.com/r/pbsds2017. Today we’re going ...

The term “central processing unit” (CPU) has popularly applied to a number of different parts of a computer over the past few decades, but it most commonly denotes the microprocessor chip that acts as ...

CPU overhead measures the amount of work a computer's central processing unit can perform and the percentage of that capacity that's used by individual computing tasks. Some of these tasks involve ...

In this article I would like to pick up on the processor and multiprocessor taxonomy themes that Robert Cravotta introduced in his article, and his two blog posts (first and second). Robert divided ...

Server consolidation is becoming an increasingly important part of major semiconductor device manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s reach, according to Kumaran Siva (pictured), corporate vice ...

Followings yesterdays launch of the Athlon 4, we went to the AMD UK launch of these units in London, in case you have been asleep the Athlon 4 is AMD’s new Palomino branch of processors. They launched ...