The most important power limits for Intel CPUs are PL1 and PL2. While PL1 is the sustained or average power that the CPU is set to draw over time, PL2 is the turbo power that the CPU can draw for ...

GIGABYTE uses its X870 AORUS Tachyon motherboard to achieve the CPU frequency record for AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor, ...

The central processing unit retrieves programming instructions from hardware and software in the computer, enabling the computer to perform a requested action. Businesses that want to improve the ...

Qualcomm's next-gen Snapdragon X2 Elite CPUs have been revealed, but how much of an upgrade are they over their Snapdragon X ...

To my knowledge, processors with longer pipelines (P4) are able to run at higher frequencies as opposed to those with shorter piplines (Athlon). I've read that from several places but none of them ...

As the initial wave of iPhone 5 reviews hit, it looked as if Apple's dual-core A6 processor was sporting a clock speed of around 1GHz. We saw reports (and confirmed with our own handset) ranging ...

AMD has announced that it has grabbed the Guinness World Record for the highest frequency of a computer processor. The record was set using an 8-core AMD FX desktop CPU. The CPU won't hit stores until ...

In today’s post, we will explore the cause and possible resolution to the issue of CPU frequencies shown in the Windows 11/10 System Properties page do not match. From the System property page, you ...

I'm taking a computer architecture course at my university to satisfy some prerequisites I'm missing for grad school. As a disclaimer, I'm in CS, not CE or EE, so my understanding of the detailed ...