Featured comment by jtanz0:
"Came here expecting to read that AMD would be cranking up the clock speed and putting in more cores - was not dissapointed" More »
Featured comment by ThisIsNotReddit:
"Sounds good. Why all the haters? This is call progress! I'm sure in the future we can go fanless! baby steps people... we'll get there!" More »
Someone who appears to be in possession of a Galaxy S4 prototype decided it would be fun to stick a few benchmarking apps on it, giving us a look at how the phone performs and what might be inside Samsung's next Android flagship. Read More >>
Featured comment by josh.moulder:
"I meant this more as underclock each core of the SGS4 to 1Ghz each, giving the phone (if the rumours are true) theoretically 8Ghz in total, and more b..." More »
Manufactured by Freescale, this chunk of silicon claims to be the world's smallest ARM-powered chip. Measuring just 2 x 2 x 0.5 millimetres, it's so small that it will likely end up inside... you. Read More >>
Now that Intel has its efficient and expensive Ivy Bridge microarchitecture in tablets and computers everywhere, it's decided to launch a budget-friendly line of processors which use the same 22nm manufacturing process. Read More >>
Featured comment by EddyCJ:
"I'm not trying to play 'best value builder' here, I'm just saying what they'll be use for. I intend to buy that i3, stick in an HD 7750, with a super ..." More »
News from the front line of the Apple-Samsung war, and Samsung, fresh off the back of winning more money back from Apple in the UK, is sticking the knife in by jacking up processor prices for Apple by 20%. Read More >>
Featured comment by irononreverse:
"They probably are still being professional, it might just be that due to lower orders prices have to rise and people are latching onto that and going,..." More »
The iPhone 5 is out in the wild, well, under NDA in the hands of reviewers at least, but it's apparently made a quick appearance on Geekbench, just to test its mettle a little. It clocked up a score of 1,601, which totally annihilates the iPhone 4S with its puny 631 score, and even tops Android's best. Read More >>
Featured comment by honjkk:
"Apple designed the chips, the phone, and the software, and all the hardware... they have several manufactures build it for them, including Samsun..." More »
Apple announced it's got a whole new chip for the iPhone 5. It's called the A6, which is a semi-surprising upgrade to this year's iPad's A5X. Read More >>
Hidden away within Google's X laboratory, where all kinds of secret projects are underway, its engineers have been working on creating an artificial brain. With 16,000 computer processors and freedom to learn whatever it chooses from the internet, though, it turns out that the brain does just what you do online: watch cat videos. Read More >>
Featured comment by TrustyDuckling:
"Surely "one million times BIGGER than that within a human brain". Or have Google discovered some insane level of nano-processor?" More »
Lots of exciting new computers! And no matter what, we still get jazzed about processor speeds. But what's this Turbo Boost business Apple mentioned? Why do CPUs have two different speeds? It's actually pretty simple. Read More >>
Featured comment by FRISH:
"1) No you need to turn it off in the bios.
2) If you decide to oc with turbo boost on then you need to take the turbo boost into consideration, eithe..." More »
Many Android handsets feature incredible processing power these days, with multiple cores and high clock speeds seeming to offer incredibly smooth performance. According to Mike Bell, from Intel's Mobile and Communications Group, though, the specs might not be as impressive as they first appear. Read More >>
Featured comment by Kauzion:
"Agreed.
My quad core PC seemed over the top 4/5 years ago, but I'm still using the fucker to this day and it's still quick enough.
Future proofi..." More »
While it might sound like a dumb idea, designing a computer processor that can make mistakes could be a good thing—especially where energy use is a concern. Read More >>
Windows 8 is stirring up a fair deal of controversy for Microsoft. Now, Intel has come out as saying that it thinks that running the new OS on ARM hardware is going to prove difficult. Read More >>
You are, no doubt, quite familiar with Intel's CPU-release "cadence" of tick-tock by now. If not, the short story is that every tock brings a major breakthrough, while ticks are decent upgrades but nothing to Twitter home about. hat's not necessarily the case with Intel's latest tick, the Ivy Bridge CPU. Sure, the performance enhancements on the x86 side of the aisle won't exactly knock you on your tuchus, but they're still decent. The upgrades to the graphics core, however, make Ivy Bridge more noteworthy. Read More >>
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