Our computer processors could soon use light to transmit data instead of electricity. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, along with a number of other universities, have developed ...

Research teams have developed a single-chip microprocessor that uses light for I/O, by packing two CPU cores with more than 70 million transistors and 850 photonic components onto a 3 x 6-mm chip.

A lot of Linux users include system monitor information in their status panel so that they can see when the CPU is grinding away. [Kevin] is taking the concept one step further by changing his case ...

A superfast computing processor that uses light, not electrons, to perform calculations has gone on sale for the first time. Lenslet, the Israeli company that developed the processor, say its light ...

Monitoring your CPU usage isn't the most fun thing in the world, but when you're working with CPU intensive programs it's a necessity. If you're sick of flicking back-and-forth between programs to see ...