The overall performance of a computer system depends on the performance of several of its subsystems, especially the central processing unit itself. Whether you're checking for reliability problems or ...

Milpitas, Sunnyvale, and Fremont, Calif. – Open-Silicon, Inc., MIPS Technologies, Inc., and Virage Logic have achieved successful 65 nanometer (nm) silicon testing of a processor test chip at 1.1GHz, ...

April 13, 2014. GOEPEL electronic has announced the availability of special VarioTAP model libraries for universal processor emulation for application processors of the i.MX51/i.MX53 family by ...

Maxon’s popular Cinebench CPU benchmarking program just got a long-overdue update to bring it up to parity with modern PCs. We’ve already tried it, on two of the most powerful CPUs you can buy today, ...

I've been watching and reading CPU reviews for quite a while. For the past few CPU generations, it seems like reviewers have added several useful workloads (e.g. tile-based rendering and video ...

Reusing Tests for Processor Fuzzing with Contextual Bandits” was published by researchers at Texas A&M University and TU ...

Just how many CPU cores do you need for PC gaming? The conventional wisdom for the last few years has been four or even two cores—if you have Hyper-Threading. That convention got upended with DirectX ...

Is your Mac’s performance not as good as it once was? Wondering if there might be a problem with your software or if one of the components has failed? Or perhaps it’s your web connection that’s ...

The first smartphones with dual-core processors reached the market in 2010. Before that smartphones used single-core processors maxing out at around 1.4GHz. Since then the number of cores has grown ...