As I’m sure many of you know, x86 architecture has been around for quite some time. It has its roots in Intel’s early 8086 processor, the first in the family. Indeed, even the original 8086 inherits a ...

Extreme Tech has a worthwhile CPU architecture overview up. The article covers some basics of CPU architecture, like pipelining, caching, etc., and then gives a brief overview of a few modern ...

The release of next-gen gaming CPUs is inherently tied to the development of new breakthroughs in CPU manufacturing and design. One such step towards a future Intel CPU design has seemingly been ...

Data prefetching has emerged as a critical approach to mitigate the performance bottlenecks imposed by memory access latencies in modern computer architectures. By predicting the data likely to be ...

Intel is launching a new entry-level CPU, but there's nothing new about what's under the IHS. The Core i5 110 might sound like a modern-ish CPU, perhaps from the Meteor Lake generation of hardware, ...