It’s been almost two years since AMD introduced its Ryzen 7000 series desktop CPUs and the Zen 4 CPU architecture. Today, AMD is announcing the first concrete details about their successors. The Ryzen ...

Introduction Over more than three decades, Arm evolved into a leading CPU architecture supplier for smartphones and embedded devices, licensing CPU architectures and core designs to customers such as ...

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The next-gen Zen 6 CPU architecture will be -- like Zen 5 -- split into two cores: Zen 6 and Zen 6c, which will both usher in new levels of performance and power efficiency across the entire range of ...

A render diagram of a new AMD Ryzen CPU has purportedly leaked online, showing a radically different CPU structure to the company's current CPUs. The diagram reportedly shows one of AMD's new Strix ...

As AI systems become increasingly agentic and autonomous, CPU demand may expand dramatically alongside GPUs, rather than ...

Discussions about CPUs often frame one instruction set architecture (ISA) against another—x86 vs. Arm, Arm vs. RISC-V, and so on. However, it’s common to use multiple CPU architectures in a single ...

When it comes to PCs, Westerners are most most familiar with x86/x64 processors from Intel and AMD, with Apple Silicon taking up a significant market share, too. However, in China, a relatively new ...

In today's market, the CPU landscape is predominantly defined by two major camps: Intel and AMD. With its significant market share, Intel holds the mantle as the leader in the CPU industry. However, ...

Optimizing any system is a multi-layered problem, but when it involves a processor there are at least three levels to consider. Architects must be capable of thinking across these boundaries because ...