Hobby programmer here. I have a couple of non-critical questions that I can't find the answer to and can't personally figure out how they work. Hopefully someone could enlighten me. Both PS4 and XB1 ...

Forgive my ignorance, but how does a processor's multiplier work? That is, would a 1.6GHz Northwood-A (400MHz FSB) processor have a multiplier of 16 due to the fact that 16 X 100 (MHz FSB) = 1600 MHz?

The design, verification, and implementation of a processor is the core competence of some companies, but others just want to whip up a small processor as quickly and cheaply as possible. What tools ...

Defining what a processor is, and what it is supposed to do, is not always as easy as it sounds. In fact, companies are struggling with the implications of hundreds of heterogenous processing elements ...

We want you to hear the music and voice. We don’t want you to hear the box," says Geoff Steadman of Telos Alliance.

Artificial intelligence helps Intel squeeze the most out of the design and manufacturing of its new Meteor Lake processor that arrives Thursday. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Grabbing top billing as the most highly integrated stereo audio processor, the MAX5406 provides a simple, de-bounced, push-button interface and packs all the op amps and potentiometers necessary for ...

Multitasking: Modern processors, especially multi-core ones, benefit from smaller process sizes by enabling better multitasking capabilities. More cores can be integrated on a single chip, improving ...

Apple's UMA design -- a single, fixed pool of RAM integrated into the die with the CPU, GPU and NPU -- makes Mac and MacBook configuration choices a little different than it used to be.