If you’ve read any of Android Authority‘s CPU deep dives, you’re hopefully a bona fide expert on the ins and outs of how processors work. But don’t worry if not. These topics are dense and require a ...

In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...

If you're a budding young tech enthusiast or simply a casual PC purchaser, you may have seen "cache" listed in the specifications for this or that processor and wondered what exactly that is. It's ...

Suppose that, ahem, a <i>friend</i> of mine accidentally chipped/flaked a tiny piece off the corner of an Athlon XP CPU while installing the heatsink. And let's say that my <i>friend</i> went ahead ...

Forgive my ignorance, but how does a processor's multiplier work? That is, would a 1.6GHz Northwood-A (400MHz FSB) processor have a multiplier of 16 due to the fact that 16 X 100 (MHz FSB) = 1600 MHz?