CPU

Dell Adds Intel Kaby Lake Chips Into Refreshed XPS 13 Laptop

The super slim ultraportable laptop has been given gutsier innards and a rose gold colour

8 years ago

Intel 7th Gen Core CPU To Tackle 4K UHD Video

Promises three-fold improvement in graphics for gamers and the power to tackle 4K ultra HD video

8 years ago

Intel Unveils VR And 4K-Focused 10-Core i7 CPU

Intel lifts lid on new Broadwell family at Computex, including 10-core Extreme Edition 'mega-tasker' ready for 4K, gaming, and virtual…

8 years ago

IBM, Huawei, AMD, ARM And Qualcomm Unite On Data Centres

Xilinx, Mellanox also join CCIX Consortium to give data centre CPUs an open sharing architecture to boost speed and efficiency

9 years ago

Moore’s Law Worry As Intel Changes Chip Upgrade Strategy

Chip giant quietly retires its 'tick-tock' processor development plans as limit to Moore's Law approaches

9 years ago

Intel Brings Mac Pro Xeon Chips To Laptops

Intel's Xeon chips are coming to notebooks as firm announces E3-1500M v5 product family

9 years ago

Intel Premieres Skylake 14nm Processors With PC Gaming Parade

Intel's i5-6600K and i7-6700K can be overclocked by the dedicated PC gamer and promise 10 percent performance hike compared to…

9 years ago

IT Life: Do You Want Chips With That?

AMD's EMEA head Darren Grasby talks about his career in IT, excitement for VR and why he's firmly on the…

10 years ago

Green500 Supercomputer List Reveals Intel, Nvidia Surprise

Intel CPUs and Nvidia GPUs are used in the world's top 10 most energy-efficient supercomputers

11 years ago

Intel Opens Up About Xeon Phi ‘Knights Landing’ CPU

Intel promises its upcoming "Knights Landing" chip will deliver significant performance improvements

11 years ago

Micron Reveals New Parallel Processing Architecture

A new computing architecture from Micron will outperform rival CPUs when dealing with unstructured data

11 years ago

AMD Releases R-Series CPUs For Embedded Systems

AMD expands its embedded CPU portfolio, one of the key strategic areas for the company going forward

11 years ago

Intel Haswell Chip Set For June Appearance

Intel has revealed that its next generation "Haswell" processors will debut at a computer show in June

12 years ago

AMD Sues Former Employees, Says They Spied For NVIDIA

Chipmaker claims VP Robert Feldstein recruited “double agents”

12 years ago

AMD Launches “Trinity” Chipset, Challenges Intel

AMD's new processors include a GPU, making them hot hits for gaming, but also for ultrabooks and for Windows 8

13 years ago

AMD Offloads Last Stake In Globalfoundries

AMD has sold the last of its stake in chip fabrication company Globalfoundries, its former manufacturing unit

13 years ago

Venray Touts Combined CPU/DRAM Chip For Heavy-Duty Applications

A US company emerging from stealth mode says combining CPU cores and DRAM on a single piece of silicon brings…

13 years ago

AMD Reveals Own Memory Chip Range For Desktops

AMD has introduced its own range of memory chips geared towards performance desktop PCs

13 years ago

Intel Launches Rival To AMD Bulldozer With i7-2700K

Intel has launched its fastest quad-core Core i7-2700K to take the fight to AMD's FX desktop chips

13 years ago

Intel Reaps PC Reward But Atom Sales Struggle

Intel has posted record financial results for the sixth consecutive quarter, but Atom sales were slow

13 years ago

AMD Launches Fast FX ‘Bulldozer’ Desktop CPUs

Desktop PC users now have the opportunity to purchase AMD's new eight-core FX Bulldozer chips

13 years ago

Supercooled AMD Bulldozer Breaks Overclock Record

AMD has smashed the overclocking speed record thanks to the use of liquid nitrogen and liquid helium

13 years ago

Intel Reportedly Declines Ultrabook CPU Price Cuts

Intel is refusing to halve CPU prices to help OEMs improve profitability from their ultrabooks, reports say

13 years ago

AMD Llano Platform Arrives In New HP Machines

AMD has officially launched its “Llano” platform, its Fusion A-Series accelerated processing units

13 years ago

ARM President Targets Mobile PC Domination

ARM officials aim to dominate the mobile PC market within four years, but are more cautious about servers

13 years ago

AMD Preps Chips For Tablet Devices

AMD is reportedly developing a CPU that is aimed squarely at the burgeoning tablet market

13 years ago

Mobile Industry Engulfed In Chip ‘Core Wars’, Analyst Warns

Intel, ARM, Nvidia are contributing to the 'Core Wars' in the mobile chip sector, an analyst has warned

14 years ago

Scottish Scientists Develop 1000-core Super Processor

A new chip that could see computers becoming much faster and greener has been developed by Scottish researchers

14 years ago

AMD Denies CPU Debugger Was A Secret

AMD has denied reports that the debugging mechanism found in its CPUs was a secret, or indeed a security risk

14 years ago

Secret Debugger Discovered In AMD Chips

A secret debugging mechanism has been discovered in AMD CPUs, prompting some security concerns

14 years ago