Continuing his reverse-engineering of the Intel 8087, [Ken Shirriff] covers the conditional tests that are implemented in the microcode of this floating point processing unit (FPU). This microcode ...

Intel’s next workstation flagship appears to be moving closer to launch, with a Xeon 698X entry showing up in the Geekbench ...

AMD announced new products, acquisitions and partnerships in 2025 as it worked to boost AI performance across platforms ...

Nvidia’s 2025 driver cutoff did not just mark the end of an era for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs, it exposed how tightly PC gaming now moves in lockstep with operating system lifecycles, AI demand, ...

Our biggest prediction for 2026 is that we're going to see volatility across the desktop and laptop space, both for prebuilts and components. With tech holding up a ton of our economy, manufacturers ...

Can you feel your PC or Mac running hot? We've found the best ways to check processor temps on your Windows PCs and Macs. Palash has been writing about technology (and entertainment) for over a decade ...

Intel stock jumps 8% as it ships first 18A Panther Lake Core Ultra Series 3 chips; rollout details, AI performance, and $50 ...

The same patch note applies to both the Switch and Switch 2 firmware updates, and if anything else significant is revealed ...

TL;DR: AMD's future Zen CPU roadmap reveals Zen 6 ("Medusa"), Zen 7 ("Prometheus") on AM5 socket with DDR5 and PCIe Gen5, followed by Zen 8 ("Penelope") and Zen 9 ("Nemesis") launching around ...

Researchers at Tsinghua University developed the Optical Feature Extraction Engine (OFE2), an optical engine that processes data at 12.5 GHz using light rather than electricity. Its integrated ...

TL;DR: Intel's next-gen Nova Lake desktop CPUs will feature four SKUs with Big Last Level Cache (bLLC), offering up to 52 cores and 288MB cache in Core Ultra 9 models, and up to 28 cores with 144MB ...

Picking the best CPU could be as simple as matching a budget to a benchmark chart. But these days the landscape feels more like a negotiation. AMD and Intel both have solid chips at nearly every price ...