Released in 1993, Intel’s Pentium processor was a marvel of technological progress. Its floating point unit (FPU) was a big improvement over its predecessors that still used the venerable CORDIC ...

Whereas the CPUs and similar ASICs of the 1970s had their transistors laid out manually, with the move from LSI to VLSI, it became necessary to optimize the process of laying out the transistors and ...

We rundown the biggest flops in the PC processor world, from the Cyrix 6x86 to AMD Bulldozer and Intel Pentium 4.

In 1993, Intel released the first Pentium processor. By today’s standards, it was primitive. At the time, it represented a major—and exciting—leap forward, even if it didn’t quite match the ...

A TechTuber has been testing a system based upon one of NVIDIA’s newest GeForce RTX 40 Ada Lovelace graphics cards available, but driven by one of Intel’s weakest CPUs. The results are surprisingly ...

Processors are built by multi-billion-dollar corporations using some of the most cutting-edge technologies known to man. But even with all their expertise, investment, and know-how, sometimes these ...

The list of the best processors is constantly shifting, with AMD and Intel constantly duking it out for a top slot. Although both companies have released some fantastic CPUs, they’ve put out plenty of ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Depending on who you ask, CPUs might top a list of the most important components you can find in a computer. People spend a lot of focus on ...

Woven history: During a recent visit to the National Gallery of Art, computer historian Ken Shirriff stumbled across a Navajo weaving with a strangely familiar pattern. Upon closer inspection, he ...

Have you ever wondered what those confusing letters and numbers at the end of the CPU mean? Every year, Intel and AMD release new generations of their CPUs with updated specifications and sometimes ...