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Geekbench claims Intel tool boosts benchmark scores by tweaking test code

Intel's Binary Optimization Tool (BOT) is designed to enhance chip performance in certain games and apps, but Geekbench ...
EDN

Translation moves to ‘synthetic CPU’ to borrow processor code

Manchester startup Transitive Technologies has built a binary translator for MIPS systems running Linux set-top boxes and similar designs that can execute and optimise software written for x86-based ...
ExtremeTech

AMD Unveils Final 4th Gen Epyc CPU Code-Named Siena

AMD has announced the final CPU in its 4th generation lineup of Zen 4 processors for the data center with its new Siena line of 8004 CPUs. This lineup will occupy the bottom rung on the performance ...
CSOonline

Intel patches high-severity CPU privilege escalation flaw

Intel has released microcode updates for several generations of mobile, desktop, and server CPUs to fix a vulnerability that can be exploited to trigger at the very least a denial-of-service condition ...
Semiconductor Engineering

CPU Performance Bottlenecks Limit Parallel Processing Speedups

Multi-core processors theoretically can run many threads of code in parallel, but some categories of operation currently bog down attempts to raise overall performance by parallelizing computing. Is ...
SlashGear

What Does GHz Mean On A CPU? (And Is Higher Better?)

Fire up the 2013 remix of the Eagles "Desperado". Listen to the beat: That's 60 beats per minute, or to an engineer, 1 Hertz (Hz). Lady Gaga's "Just Dance" is around twice that. It sounds fast, but ...