An interesting detail about the Intel 8087 floating point processor (FPU) is that it’s a co-processor that shares a bus with the 8086 or 8088 CPU and system memory, which means that somehow ...

AMD's Ryzen 10000 "Olympic Ridge" chips might finally break the 16-core barrier with a new 24-core flagship, according to a leak from reliable tipster HXL.

Intel’s Core Ultra lineup of desktop and laptop processors has been frustrating to review. None of them has been across-the-board awful or totally without redeeming qualities. But Intel has struggled ...

Excellent gaming performance. Dead simple and effective overclocking. Not really an upgrade from the 9800X3D. Requires substantial cooling. For at least the past year, the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D has been ...

Continuing his reverse-engineering of the Intel 8087, [Ken Shirriff] covers the conditional tests that are implemented in the microcode of this floating point processing unit (FPU). This microcode ...

Ah, the tween years for chip announcements: Those periods when companies roll out tweaked versions of the big architectural changes we saw over the previous year (or earlier). In AMD's case, some of ...

The 9850X3D has higher boost clocks that should improve frame rates in many esports titles. The 9850X3D has higher boost clocks that should improve frame rates in many esports titles. is a senior ...

AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su kicked off her keynote at CES 2026 with a message about what compute could deliver: AI for everyone. As part of that promise, AMD announced a new line of AI processors as the ...

CPU manufacturers must address issues that arise with processors already on the market, especially the errors that are discovered over time. To handle this, Intel has released a new version of ...

Discussions about CPUs often frame one instruction set architecture (ISA) against another—x86 vs. Arm, Arm vs. RISC-V, and so on. However, it’s common to use multiple CPU architectures in a single ...

Six months after Lip-Bu Tan began his quest to turn around struggling Intel, the semiconductor giant has announced a major hardware upgrade. On Thursday, Intel unveiled a new processor, codenamed ...

Figuring out the best kinds of processors to use for different AI workloads is a challenge. AI algorithms are undergoing rapid and frequent changes, and the workloads tied to them can vary by data ...