When you're buying a new CPU, what should you focus on: spec sheets or reviews & benchmarks? The answer lies somewhere in between. Of course, you should refer to third-party reviews before making a ...

Modern processors are designed to increase their clock speeds automatically when additional performance is needed. In Windows 11, a setting called Processor Performance Boost Mode lets you control how ...

For years, processors focused on performance, and that performance had little accountability to anything else. Performance still matters, but now it must be accountable to power. If small gains in ...

Your CPU is half-asleep even during the most heavy workloads — here's how to wake it up.

Sigma Designs has announced the availability of its new SMP8644 media processor system-on-chip (SoC), designed for feature-rich consumer products including next generation IPTV set-top boxes, IP cable ...

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 jargon.