Small businesses rely on computers to do everything from accounting and invoicing to creating marketing materials. Consequently, many businesses need to purchase, repair or upgrade systems rather ...

Programming processors is becoming more complicated as more and different types of processing elements are included in the same architecture. While systems architects may revel in the number of ...

There's a processor for doing better AI, a processor for making cars safer, a processor to build a better cloud, a processor to implement better databases, a processor for supporting IOT services and ...

What’s the real difference between a CPU, GPU, TPU, DPU, and QPU? In this quick and clear explainer, we walk through how each type of processor works, what it’s best at, and how they’re shaping the ...

In many low-power applications, the processor is a major contributor to the overall system energy consumption. Hence, the processor typically plays a key role in determining a product's battery life.

Why is it called the Internet of Things (IoT), anyway? Why isn’t it called the Internet of Everything, since everything is becoming connected? The devices and objects that once were autonomous are ...

In the last few years a number of start-up companies have announced massively parallel processors for embedded DSP applications. With their arrays of processing elements, these processors target ...

How to identify and fix execution bugs like Spectre and Meltdown has been a burning topic among microprocessor buffs this year. At Hot Chips, one of the industry’s premier academic conferences on ...

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 ...

An energy-efficient microchip under development combines different types of processors into one chip and is expected to revolutionize commercial and defense technology, the advanced semiconductor’s ...

CPU (Central Processing Unit) is the most important part of a computer. All the calculations needed to run a particular task or application on a computer are processed by the CPU. That’s why it is ...