The resulting benefit can vary accordingly. “A small simple branch predictor might speed up a processor by 15%, whereas a ...

AMD is expected to lift the lid on its forthcoming Zen 5 architecture at Computex in June, and we’d be surprised if some of these CPUs didn’t make it onto our best gaming CPU guide. However ...

Next-gen Snapdragon X2 chip rumoured to pack 18 cores and a new CPU architecture, but we're still waiting for gaming to really be a goer on the original Snapdragon X News By Jeremy Laird published ...

Looking at the diagram, we see the CPU serving up 24 PCIe 4.0 lanes, with 16 of them jettisoned to two PCIe x16 slots for graphics cards. Those slots can be configured as either PCIe 4.0 x16 or x8/x8.

AMD’s Ryzen—the CPU brand which is the public face of its Zen chip architecture—enters at a particularly serendipitous time. Rival Intel just released its mainstream quad-core Kaby Lake ...

Steamroller is the successor to Piledriver, and Piledriver is the name of the x86-64 CPU architecture used in the ... (shared) L2 cache. In simple terms, Steamroller is Piledriver 2.0 ...