It's worth noting that Big Sur certainly could employ the same strategy with an eight-core Intel processor—although there is no similar big/little split in core performance on x86, there's nothing ...

The elephant in the room has been, for a very long time, Moore’s Law—or really, its eventual end game. Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted in a 1965 paper that the number of transistors on a chip ...

In a recent hardware deep-dive, we took a look at how CPU cores and cache impacted gaming performance. To do that, we used three Intel Core processors and compared their core scaling performance, ...

Once the graphics card stops being the limiting factor, which is usually the case at lower resolutions, your CPU suddenly ...

The Intel Atom N550 processor is the first dual core Atom chip built specifically for netbooks. Up until now all dual core Atom processors have been designed for low power desktops. While there aren’t ...

Every enthusiast wants a killer, high-performance PC that blows fire and chews up benchmarks for breakfast. (PCMark, yum!) But packing a PC to the gills with cutting-edge hardware creates a hot rod in ...

The central processing unit in a computer works with nearly all data in the machine with the exception of graphics and audio processing in computers with video or sound cards. As the central component ...

Back at the Computex trade show earlier this year, I wrote about about an event I attended with Intel along with a select few other journalists where the company revealed its Core i9-9900KS. Today I ...

Everything you need to know about ransomware: how it started, why it's booming, how to protect against it, and what to do if your PC's infected. Read now A lesser-known ransomware strain known as ...

Apple’s M1 processor is a world-class desktop and laptop processor—but when it comes to general-purpose end-user systems, there’s something even better than being fast. We’re referring, of course, to ...