For a while, it was thought that generic central processing units had little role to play in the artificial intelligence revolution, but Nvidia Corp. begs to differ. At its GTC 2026 developer ...

Everyone has heard that mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell. Well, the central processing unit (CPU) is the powerhouse of the computer. It's the brain, and without a CPU in your computer, ...

The average PC gamer retains their CPU for much longer than their GPU. Jumping to a new GPU usually gives a bigger return on investment, contributing to the longer shelf life of gaming CPUs.

Even three years later, AMD’s high-end X3D-series processors still aren’t a thing that most people need to spend extra money on—under all but a handful of circumstances, your GPU will be the limiting ...

Discussions about CPUs often frame one instruction set architecture (ISA) against another—x86 vs. Arm, Arm vs. RISC-V, and so on. However, it’s common to use multiple CPU architectures in a single ...

With desktop CPU shipments seeing ‘strong growth sequentially’ that was ‘lower than normal seasonal rates,’ AMD’s growth rate was more than double that of Intel’s for the third quarter, according to ...