The chipmaker gives a name to the next-generation chip design that's at the heart of the company's fight against AMD. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

Recently, AMD went live with a livestream presentation in which it announced the next step in the company’s CPU architecture and product innovation. Though the headline news was expected to be the new ...

As designs move to finFET process nodes, dynamic power reduction has become a requirement. Designers have to eliminate or minimize all sources of redundant switching activity in order to reduce ...

The two companies are embarking on a new co-engineering and co-marketing partnership for PCs they say will push the envelope on mobility, connectivity and performance — and some of the PCs will ...

In early 2018, the tech industry was shocked by the discovery of hardware microarchitecture vulnerabilities that bypassed decades of work put into software and application security. Meltdown and ...

Earlier in December Intel introduced its all new Intel Pentium Silver and Intel Celeron processors. Six new processors were released to systems and device makers and we should see the first fruits ...

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The evolution of microprocessor architecture through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s can be viewed as a process of reusing techniques first implemented in IBM mainframes in the 1960s. Just as we are ...