cpu

Soft Machines Reveals Proof of Concept VISC CPU

Ever since Soft Machines first revealed their plans for a VISC style processor, many CPU fans have grown interested in…

9 years ago

DARPA Developing On-Chip Liquid Cooling

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is helping to develop on-chip liquid cooling for field-programmable gate array (FPGA) systems…

9 years ago

Intel to Enable SGX on Latest Batch of Skylake CPUs

Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX) originally arrived on the Haswell architecture and provides an instructions set which allows programs to offset…

9 years ago

AMD Patch Reveals Highly Competitive Zen Architecture Details

All hopes at AMD are pinned on their new Zen CPU architecture performing well against Intel's currently superior lineup. While…

9 years ago

Microsoft Buys Havok Physics From Intel

Microsoft today is announcing their acquisition of Havok Physics from long time owner Intel. Used in a large number of…

9 years ago

Intel May Increase Mainstream Core Count for Cannonlake

Intel has long limited the mainstream platform to 4 physical cores, with 8 threads due only to Hyper-Threading. This has held…

9 years ago

Arctic Announces Semi Passive Freezer CPU Cooler

Arctic has released some impressive cooling solutions in the past, for both CPUs and GPUs. Their newest CPU cooler is…

9 years ago

Apple iPhone 6S Teardown Confirms Weaker Battery

IFixIt has performed a comprehensive technical Teardown of the iPhone 6S to examine the handset's build quality and overall construction.…

9 years ago

AMD Zen to use TSMC 16nm as GF 14nm Falters

TSMC has just scored a major CPU customer as AMD is allegedly moving their Zen CPUs over to the fab.…

9 years ago

Intel Withheld Haswell Shipments in order to Push Skylake Sales

While PC sales have been slower over the past few years, it looks like Intel had been planning for such…

9 years ago

Valve’s Dan Ginsburg Claims Vulkan is Better than DirectX 12

Valve developer Dan Ginsburg spoke at length regarding the two upcoming APIs, DirectX 12 and Vulkan, during this year’s SIGGRAPH…

9 years ago

AMD Confident Zen Will Deliver on Performance

AMD took a blow this past week after another major departure. While some have taken Jim Keller's departure to be…

9 years ago

Pharmonic HEX 1.0 Cooler Uses Refrigeration to Cool Your PC

Phononic is working on a CPU cooler that could revolutionise PC temperature regulation, one that uses refrigeration technology. The HEX…

9 years ago

CPU Wizard Jim Keller Leaves AMD

One of the most renowned members of AMD, Jim Keller is leaving the firm once again. The former Chief Architect…

9 years ago

AMD’s Carrizo APU Reduces Carbon Footprint by 46%

Earlier this year, AMD launched the A-series APUs under the "Carrizo" codename which strive for energy efficiency and lower wattage…

9 years ago