The Ryzen 7 9850X3D mostly does what it says it does: It’s a mild speed bump to AMD’s best gaming processor that, in most cases, very slightly extends the company’s performance lead over Intel chips ...

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang publicly talks about its new N1X/N1 processor, a joint project with MediaTek for a system-on-a-chip ...

AMD’s follow-up, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D, is technically faster, but you’d be hard-pressed to tell them apart when you’re actually gaming. As a result, I don’t see any reason for existing 9800X3D owners ...

Intel’s Core Ultra lineup of desktop and laptop processors has been frustrating to review. None of them have been ...

Nvidia has confirmed it's releasing its own CPU in collaboration with MediaTek, including a desktop-level N1X Arm chip and the N1 for gaming laptops, and now a surprise Intel x86 RTX silicon from an ...

Intel released the 80286 processor on February 1, 1982, making the CPU 44 years old. According to the company, the 16-bit chip represented a significant evolution ...

because games barely use any CPU cores.

Every so often, a semiconductor startup emerges claiming to have cracked a problem the industry’s biggest players have wrestled with for decades. Most fade quietly, but occasionally, one arrives that ...

"Chip design is not rocket science. It's much more difficult," is a running joke in the industry. But in an age where AI is helping solve some of the biggest challenges across medical science and ...

Low-power computer chip startup Efficient Computer Co. today announced the launch of its new flagship Electron E1 processor, dramatically reducing the energy requirements of general-purpose computing ...

Intel still needs time to capitalize on the AI chip market's growth, but its rival is already making solid progress in this space.

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 ...