The DIY personal computer space was historically dominated by Intel in Japan. As recently as 2017, the American tech company held close to an 84 percent share in the market space. The landscape began ...

Picking the right CPU will be the make-or-break decision for any PC you build, but how do you know when to buy a brand-new ...

AMD and Intel CPUs from a vending machine? It would be weird to hear of it until you discover that this gizmo was spotted in Japan: a world-famous country for its vending machines. A group of AMD ...

Over the years there have been a few CPUs designed to directly run a high-level programming language, the most common ...

A question: does anyone who was around in the early days of the 8-bit computer revolution remember a dual-CPU 6502 portable machine like this one? Or just a dual-CPU machine? Or even just a reasonably ...

Ever since Soft Machines first revealed their plans for a VISC style processor, many CPU fans have grown interested in what is essentially “reverse Hyper-Threading”. Today the CPU design house ...

Built my current main machine in Jan. 2019 (first retirement build): i5-9600K, GTX 1080, 16GB memory, 650w PSU, some spinny storage and an SSD for booting. I tend to keep machines 8-10 years, with ...

A well-funded chip startup, Soft Machines, is taking the popular but abstract concept of virtual machines and applying it to the chip level. Soft Machines is debuting what it calls a Virtual ...

I have 2 identical virtual machines on 2 different hosts, with 2 different hypervisors (Hype-V and VMWare) and different cpus beneath. What benchmark software do you recommend for cpu and RAM (also ...

AI is the backbone of technologies such as Alexa and Siri-- digital assistants that rely on deep machine learning to do their thing. But for the makers of these products -- and others that rely on AI ...

Cryptocurrencies are dominating the headlines once again for various reasons, including retailers offering support for payment methods based on the technology. This increase in public interest in ...