This past week Sony took a major step toward the next generation of PlayStation consoles, officially announcing the PS5 by name and confirming that it's launching during the holiday season in 2020.

AMD's next-gen EPYC 9000 "Genoa" CPU family will be powered by the next-gen Zen 4 core architecture, with details arriving on the flagship EPYC 9664 CPU. The next-gen AMD EPYC 9664 processor will have ...

At some point, everyone learns that a CPU has a variable number of cores inside, and that number influences its performance. The next natural impulse is to find out how many cores your CPU has. The ...

It is going to be several months before Intel releases Alder Lake onto the world, at least within an official capacity. Unofficially, rumors and leaks always precede chip launches, teasing out little ...

Intel's upcoming Xeon 654 'Granite Rapids' workstation CPU details leaked: 18C/36T @ 4.8GHz with 72MB cache, flagship SKU has ...

Hyper-Threading is one of those concepts that's been around a long time, and which everyone takes for granted. Despite that, relatively few enthusiasts really understand how it works or what the point ...

Why do we complain about hardware bottlenecks when the software isn't written to take full advantage of all the cores and oomph hardware has? Why is it always the fault of the hardware and not the ...

This is in sharp contrast to Intel’s pricing strategies, which have tended for years to run more toward “pick the CPU you can afford” than “pick the CPU that fits your needs.” The best example of this ...

Intel officially launched the 10th-gen Core Comet Lake H-series CPUs for high-performance laptops recently, but it's not until this week that we can discuss performance. Aimed at high-end productivity ...

A reader recently contacted us and asked a question worth answering in an article. How does Windows (and perhaps all OS's) take advantage of multiple cores? Alternatively, if this function is built ...