Tag: Processors

This simulation of how an old 8-bit processor fetches data from ROM is a thing of beauty

This simulation of how…

If you’ve ever wanted to see how a nearly 50-year-old computer fetches data, you’re in luck. One designer has…
This $6,000 professional grade direct transfer printer comes with plenty of viruses for no extra cost, unless it also steals your crypto

This $6,000 professional grade…

It’s a sad truth that you just can’t ever let your guard down when it comes to malicious software,…
AMD unleashes up to 96 cores of Zen 5 with its new Threadripper 9000 Series chips

AMD unleashes up to…

Workstations get all the fun stuff. First, there was Maxsun’s dual-GPU graphics card, now we’re eyeing up 96 cores…
Rumours of an Arm-based CPU from AMD just won’t go away as analysts reckon Arm is eating into the PC processor market

Rumours of an Arm-based…

AMD is plotting a CPU based on the Arm rather than x86 instruction set. So goes the rumour and…
It sounds like a six-word horror story, but ‘Ransomware running directly from your CPU’ is now a real thing

It sounds like a…

Ransomware is already a horrible blight on the tech world. These insidious programs are designed especially to hold your…
Intel admits it doesn’t have any ‘significant’ commitments from customers to make advanced chips in its fabs

Intel admits it doesn’t…

For almost as long as we can remember (okay, about three years), the 18A node has been all-important for…
Now it’s AMD’s Ryzen 9000-series processors alleged to be suffering from terminal voltage spikes and we’re not sure if any CPUs are totally safe

Now it’s AMD’s Ryzen…

As the Raptor Lake crashing CPU debacle rumbles on, maybe AMD’s latest Ryzen 9000-series processors suffer from the same…
A year later and over six months since the last patch, Intel is STILL releasing updates to fix instability problems with its 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs

A year later and…

A couple of weeks ago I reported the surprising news that Intel’s elderly and bug-infested 13th and 14th Gen…
Intel slashes the price of its Core Ultra 265K CPU from $399 to $299, making it a killer deal for gamers despite all the early issues

Intel slashes the price…

We reported a couple of weeks back on the slightly odd news that Intel’s elderly Raptor Lake CPUs are…
Nvidia and MediaTek rumoured to announce new Windows on Arm laptop chips at Computex 2025

Nvidia and MediaTek rumoured…

At the end of last year, I listed a possible Nvidia laptop chip (ie, not just the GPU but…