What's the difference between Core i3, i5, i7 and i9 processors? Laptop and desktop processors explained, as well as Pentium, Atom and Celeron performance in laptops. We explain those numbers actually ...

Understand what CPU (Central Processing Unit) cores are and how many cores do you need for your PC, based on the nature of your work.

Intel Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7 CPUs have been around for a few years now, but some buyers still get stumped whenever they attempt to build their own systems and are forced to choose among the ...

Intel's new Core i9-14900K is the fastest desktop CPU from Team Blue, but is it worth upgrading from the Core i9-13900K? We break down the differences.

From the moment you decide that your current Intel processor just isn’t up to par and start investigating an upgrade to your current laptop or desktop, you’re often bombarded with technical ...

Quad-core and octa-core devices seem to be the norm at the moment, but can Android apps use so many cores? I did some testing and this is what I found out.

A number of new CPU companies with aggressive many-core architectures have made headlines in the last 12 months -- but they aren't the solution to the underlying problem. There's no simple way to ...

CPU speeds are measured in GHz, but they don't tell the full story of a processor's performance, multi-tasking capability, and other computing features.

From the CPU's perspective, a thread (short for "thread of execution") is merely an ordered sequence of instructions that tells the computer what to do.