Ken Shirriff] has been sharing a really low-level look at Intel’s Pentium (1993) processor. The Pentium’s architecture was highly innovative in many ways, and one of [Ken]’s ...

Many Windows users experience a bizarre and highly menacing problem where a specific process named svchost.exe (netsvcs) starts requisitioning and using more and more RAM after the affected computer ...

The TPM 2.0 security module requirement has disqualified a lot of older PCs from upgrading, but Windows 11 also requires a decent CPU. As of two weeks ago, Microsoft updated the list of compatible ...

How do you install a CPU? While your graphics card is undoubtedly the main driver when it comes to gaming, it’s also essential to upgrade your CPU now and then. With higher clock speeds ...

Choosing the right CPU to complement your GPU is one of the most important decisions you'll make when building your PC. If you get something that is underpowered or overpowered, it'll result in ...

This is not a super strong GPU, but the GA104 processor and the Samsung 8nm node found on the GPU have given this Ampere unit enough power to run any game you need, and it’s stood the test of time, ...

With that said, what's the normal operational temperature for a processor? In short, there's a difference in the thermal potential (matching the performance) of the best processors when compared ...

Microsoft’s quantum breakthrough takes the form of the “world’s first topoconductor,” but it has a long way to go in revolutionizing quantum computing as a whole. Quantum computing is the ...

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Researchers at Microsoft have announced the creation of the first “topological qubits” in a device that ...

originally targeted the same Intel 8080 processor that inspired the creation of Microsoft, but it quickly spread to other architectures like the Zilog Z80. Indeed, it was so popular with Intel ...