"Designing a new generation of hardware with such high performance needs to make sure that developers understand the basics, and are familiar with the architecture of a new system. Single thread ...

When considering the future of CPU architecture, some industry watchers predict excitement, and some predict boredom. But no one predicts a return to the old days, when speed doubled at least ...

Basics: Understanding Key Processor Factors. Before diving into the Snapdragon 7 series, ... Let’s begin with the Processor architecture. Architecture refers to how a processor is built.

For decades, Intel (INTC 0.91%) and its second-fiddle rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD 0.05%) dominated the microprocessor market. From PCs to business servers, finding a processor that wasn't ...

AMD has just released some details about its newest tablet processor, codenamed Hondo, which will compete with Intel's Clover Trail Atom chips for use in low-end Windows 8 tablets. There actually ...

Chinese processor company Loongson Technology announced that its processor instruction set architecture (ISA), LoongArch, is now supported by the System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) specification, meaning ...

Like today’s Intel-AMD duopoly, the market for home computer CPUs in the 1970s and ’80s was dominated by two players: Zilog with their Z80, and MOS Technology with their 6502 processor.… ...