In this video, we explore the fundamental components of computers, beginning with transistors and their role in CPUs. The Intel 4004 processor, the first commercially available processor, is discussed ...
is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft has had six years to prepare for the launch of Windows 11, but the ...
If you're looking at buying a new Ryzen CPU, the time is now, and we mean right now, as in literally within the next few hours. That's because AMD is expected to raise prices on its CPUs at the ...
Engineers have designed a computer processor that thwarts hackers by randomly changing its microarchitecture every few milliseconds. Known as Morpheus, the puzzling processor has now aced its first ...
Security researchers have found new a new way to bypass existing hardware-based defenses for speculative execution in modern computer processors from Intel, AMD, and Arm. Today, the three CPU ...
In this post, we will explain what is a computer CPU pipeline. CPU (an abbreviation of the Central Processing Unit) is an important part of the computer that functions like a brain. And we already ...
TL;DR: Nvidia's first CPU based on the Arm architecture has been the subject of growing buzz, signaling the company's ambitions to challenge dominant players like Intel, AMD, and Apple. But that move ...
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We review a lot of computers at CNET, and we've been doing it for a long time. Over the years, some of the methodology has changed, but our core commitment to in-depth product reviews has not. Our ...
HWiNFO is one of the best free hardware monitoring tools. The latest version of the software has fixed legacy CPU usage reading on Windows 11, a kernel-mode hardware stack driver bug, and more. HWiNFO ...
Microsoft quietly made a change to its official Windows 11 minimum hardware requirements in order to help users understand Copilot+ PC compatibility and support better. Microsoft, sometime in March ...
AnandTech used to be my go to source for CPU & GPU reviews. For my first few PC builds, I used to scour their reviews & benchmarks to agonize over which processors & GPU's to put into my build. It ...