AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 "Dual Edition" is coming soon, pitched for high-end gamers and professional creative work alike. With 16-cores on the Zen 5 architecture, the standout specs are the 208MB 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 ...

It’s been almost two years since AMD introduced its Ryzen 7000 series desktop CPUs and the Zen 4 CPU architecture. Today, AMD is announcing the first concrete details about their successors. The Ryzen ...

New desktop processor doubles down on 3D cache to deliver gains in latency, throughput, and creative workloads.

Alibaba Group has unveiled its latest server-class CPU, the XuanTie C950, targeting AI agents and high-performance cloud workloads as demand for large-scale ...

Arm enters the chip business with its AGI CPU for AI data centers, claiming 2x performance versus x86. The historic pivot ...

Chip startup Efficient Computer Corp. exited stealth mode in 2024 with a $16 million seed funding round with the announcement of its first computer processor, the E0 system-on-chip (SoC) for ...

The design, verification, and implementation of a processor is the core competence of some companies, but others just want to whip up a small processor as quickly and cheaply as possible. What tools ...

Optimizing any system is a multi-layered problem, but when it involves a processor there are at least three levels to consider. Architects must be capable of thinking across these boundaries because ...