Whether you're upgrading your desktop PC or building a new one, choosing the right processor is the most crucial and complex ...

Today, that means that you can get yourself a new CPU for less, because the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X is on sale right now with 34% ...

Intel says its new Wildcat Lake Core 3 Series chip family is built for affordable laptops. My first wave of tests shows exactly where it shines and struggles—and who should consider it.

Intel’s 14th-generation desktop processors were a mild update on top of a mild update: a barely faster revision of the 13th-gen Core CPUs, which were themselves a modest tweak to 2021’s 12th-gen Core ...

Power draw runs at 125W base TDP, with a maximum turbo power of 250W under heavy all-core load. The 3nm manufacturing process the 270K Plus uses delivers measurably better energy efficiency than the ...

There's Intel and AMD on the x86 side, with Apple and Qualcomm making Arm-based processors on the other. We break down the advantages and drawbacks of each to help you pick the right chip for your ...

AMD will make its first public demonstration of its Epyc Venice server CPUs based on its upcoming Zen 6 architecture this ...

Processor makers are increasingly turning to repurposing older silicon to be sold into new laptops. That's fine. But it's ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Intel will be introducing 12 new processors under its Panther Lake CPU family, with four of them being the newly-named "Core Ultra X", four of them will be ...

I knew this was coming — I just didn’t expect it to happen quite just yet. It turns out that some of the best processors are on their way toward retirement, because eight-core CPUs are slowly becoming ...

I’m not going to even pretend the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is a bad CPU. It’s one of the best processors you can buy, and undoubtedly the best processor you can buy for gaming. There are just a couple of ...

Windows was already using every core you thought you unlocked.