Most of us will be familiar at some level with the operation of a basic CPU, usually through exposure to microprocessors of the type that find their way into our projects. We can look at its internal ...

There was a time when owning a computer meant you probably knew most or all of the instructions it could execute. Your modern PC, though, has a lot of instructions, many of them meant for specialized ...

CPUs can only carry out one instruction at a time. It might seem like CPUs can perform many instructions simultaneously, since it is possible for you to do homework, read instant messages and listen ...

x86, the mainstream instruction set architecture for PC CPUs, originated from the Intel 8086 processor and has been in use for 46 years. Technology blog Hackaday claims that x86 will be extinct in the ...

Why it matters: Alder Lake mobile CPUs might bring a lot of performance improvements over their Tiger Lake predecessors, but we still know too little about them to draw any conclusions. Intel is ...

As dual-core CPUs and quad-core CPUs are becoming more generalized, Intel recently became a new processor for serversUp to 8 cores CPU "Xeon 7500/6500" seriesWe announced it, but it became clear that ...

In brief: Geekbench 5 scores for Intel's upcoming Alder Lake-S CPU have turned up online. The benchmarks are sub-stellar but not unexpected from an early engineering sample (ES). Mostly the sighting ...

Does anyone know how I can disable the HLT instructions that Windows issues to the CPU when the CPU is idle? The integrated ESS sound card I have makes static when the CPU usage isn't at 100%.