A CPU, or central processing unit, is a vital part of your computer or phone, and is responsible for executing every command ...

AMD was once the underdog in the semiconductor industry for years. Starting as a licensed chip manufacturer for giants like Intel, it wasn’t a big name in the space for a while. The company eventually ...

Editor’s Note: This story is a guide to the desktop processors available for purchase right now. For a look at what desktop CPUs will be coming later in 2007, see Beyond Dual Core: 2007 Desktop CPU ...

Roman "Der8auer" Hartung has shown off a phase change spray cooling experiment on a bare CPU, and it made it through a run of ...

With 3D V-cache, 16 Zen 5 cores, and a peak 5.7GHz clock speed, is this the killer CPU of the moment? We run the benchmarks ...

You can overclock your PC's CPU by increasing the CPU multiplier and voltage, but you need to make sure the computer can ...

PC freezing, going slow, or running into hitches where it shouldn’t? Even if you have one of the best processors, high CPU usage could be to blame. Unfortunately, if you aren’t too computer savvy, ...

These days, even average mobile CPUs are powerful enough to rival their desktop cousins in every application other than gaming (and they’re catching up on that front, too). That helps explain why ...