Category: CPUs and Processors

Around Christmas time, Ventiva launched its Ionic Cooling Engine (ICE), the latest in what has been an unexpectedly disappointing industry of fanless cooling solutions for laptops. But with Ventiva, there’s a key…

AMD has confirmed a vulnerability in its processor lineup that leaked out early before the company had a chance to issue a patch. While the vulnerability appears to affect consumer Ryzen CPUs,…

AMD’s X3D series of CPUs with game-boosting cache has quickly become the go-to choice for system builders, and none are more popular than the latest Ryzen 7 9800X3D. And, predictably, it looks…

Flagship CPUs may be tempting at first glance, especially if you are building a gaming PC where budget is not an issue. However, the small increase in performance compared to less expensive…

You would think that Arm, which arguably has been the vanguard in the smartphone and PC industry push for improved power efficiency, would double down on that strategy in its plans for…

Intel, AMD, or Qualcomm. Which do you want powering your PC? If you don’t prefer any of them, you might have another option soon — and the name will be quite familiar….

AMD’s world-beating 9800X3D chips destroyed the competition and promptly sold out. Why? David McAfee, AMD’s corporate vice president and general manager of its Client Channel Business, and Frank Azor, the chief architect…

Deep within your computer is a blueprint that specifies a certain “language” of machine instructions it can understand and execute. This blueprint (called the “instruction set architecture”) sits between your computer’s software…

No doubt about it, AMD had a very good year. Our recap of AMD’s highs, lows, and head-scratching moments of 2024 doesn’t reveal too many mistakes. At times, Intel stumbled through 2024…