Over the past several generations of Xeon processors, Intel has slowly added to their maximum core count, usually not by too much. With the latest generation of Xeon Purley Skylake processors, the ...

AMD is gearing up for the unleashing of its next-gen Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 series "Storm Peak" CPUs, with another tease at the monster everything-crunching Zen 4 processors. The new Ryzen ...

The next-gen Intel Lunar Lake CPUs will be for ultra-low mobile power systems, which will succeed the current-gen Core Ultra 100U "Meteor Lake" CPUs that we've seen deployed since CES 2024 earlier ...

From the CPU's perspective, a thread (short for "thread of execution"), is merely an ordered sequence of instructions that tell the computer what to do. In most of my articles on Ars and in my book, I ...

In 1998, Ask Ars was an early feature of the newly-launched Ars Technica. Now, as then, it's all about your questions and our community's answers. Each week, we'll dig into our question bag, provide ...

Well, if it weren't for those eight-core chips listed as the minimum, I'd say that something like a six-core, 12-thread CPU ...

AMD is writing the book on socket longevity and it's doing it with AM4, which is approaching a decade of service.

The Ryzen 7 9700F features a 3.8 GHz base clock and a 5.5 GHz boost clock. Built on TSMC's 4 nm FinFET process, it offers 32 MB of L3 cache, ...

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AMD has released the final CPU in its 2017 rampage, which completes the Threadripper range with the 8-core, 16-thread Threadripper 1900X. The CPU is slated to retail for $549, which is $49 more than ...